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Adriana la Noy

Adriana la Noy was a 17th-century Dutch sailor who dressed as a man. She volunteered for the country's fleet in Zeeland, the westernmost and least populated province of the Netherlands, during the First English Sea War and served as a sailor. She sailed until she was revealed to be a cross-dresser. The captain on the ship claimed that "on voyages and watches she had behaved piously and honestly, as a sailor was bound to do." Her name has been passed down because it appears in the "Minutes of the Admiralty of the Maze and Amsterdam" written by JC De Jonge in 1858. In this text, it states that Adriana la Noy is one of a handful of women who cross-dressed in order to serve on the country's fleet. They were all fired from service once discovered.

Sources


 * JC de Jonge (1858). History of the Dutch Maritime Industry. Haarlem, Kruseman, 2nd edition. Part I, pg. 507, footnote 1


 * Rudolf Dekker, Lotte van de Pol . Women in men's clothes. The history of a contrary tradition in Europe 1500-1800. Amsterdam, World Library, 1989.