The Evening Standard yet again (2 May) came up trumps with a story designed to spark kinky creativity. They told how “A shamed Navy Wren who was jailed for stealing thousands of pounds from her ship’s safe has been given a job as a senior NHS (National Health Service) manager.”
In 1994 at the age of 27, the undeniably very attractive lady sailor in question was court martialled after the incident on HMS Invincible, and became “the first Wren to be sent to prison”. The case had come about just three years after Wrens were sent to sea for the first time to serve alongside male sailors.
My mind wandered… Had Wrens been allowed to serve on board in 1894, what punishment might have been inflicted? Images of women in sailor’s uniforms being flogged in front of the assembled crew come to mind.
Hmmm, I much prefer the idea of them “kissing the gunner’s daughter”.