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Master of her own career who always had sights set on the sea.
(From Lloyds List)
Byline: How as a determined teenager Malin Andersson shrugged off a horrible first voyage to become one of only four female shipmasters in Sweden
MALIN Andersson has never sailed with a worse crew or shipmaster since her first voyage but that taste of seafaring life decided her future career.
She went on to qualify as a master for a far superior outfit, Wallenius Lines, and enjoy the respect and generosity of all her other crew companions. Today she is ashore as a port captain for Wallenius Wilhelmsen Line in Sydney.
Ms Andersson comes from a small fishing village in southern Sweden called Skillinge, which in the late 1800s boasted the most sailing ships registered in the country.
'So Skillinge has a very strong tie with shipping,' she says. 'A lot of people living there work with shipping. My best friend's family were all into shipping at one point of their lives, and I think this is why I got interested.
'I just love the ocean, so when I got a call in 1982 to sign on as OS [ordinary seaman] on a tanker I took the chance.
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