Pearl Wallace

Pearl Wallace
Born2 August 1911
Renmark, South Australia
Died2005
Known forAustralia's first qualified riverboat skipper

Pearl Wallace (2 August 1911 - 2005), also known as Captain Pearl Hogg, was Australia's first qualified woman master mariner, worked as a riverboat skipper and was the inspiration for the book All the Rivers Run, by Nancy Cato.

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