Meet Bess Riley!

So, we come to Bess Riley, the woman responsible for protecting Charles on more occasions than he would like to admit. Bess is a woman who will not be told who she is or what she can do; she is more than capable of captaining her own whaling ship and she does not need any man holding her hand.

To be fair, if any man tries to treat our Bess like a delicate little flower, they may find themselves at the pointy end of a harpoon or taking an unexpected swim! If she is feeling generous, she might haul him back in but that would entirely depend on whether he saw the error of his ways!

She may, or may not, share certain character traits with one of the authors, but that could just be hearsay