title: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
author:  Abby Sunderland 
description: Abby Sunderland is the second of eight children in a family of sailors and adventurers. In 2007, at age 13, Abby discovered her dream of sailing solo around the world and was inspired by her brother Zac's successful circumnavigation in 2009. Her own journey, in 2010, ended in the Indian Ocean when a rogue wave rolled her sailboat, Wild Eyes . Abby now shares her story of tenacity and courage to audiences everywhere.
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  ## _Acknowledgements_
  
  
  I have endeavoured to be as accurate as possible with the historical and
  geographical facts I have woven into _Shipyard Girls at War_ and it is thanks
  to an array of organisations, publications, and individuals that I have been
  able to do this, including Sunderland Antiquarian Society, Sunderland Maritime
  Heritage, the Sunderland Echo, and Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens.
  
  
  A special thanks must go to Elena Notarianni who has been such a great wealth
  of information in relation to the town and the era in which the series is set,
  and has also put me in contact with some great women. Bridget Marley told me
  about her vividly-remembered childhood growing up while bombs rained down on
  the town, and Meg Hartford spoke to me about her much-loved Aunt Mattie who
  worked as a riveter in one of the Sunderland shipyards during the war.
  
  
  I must also say a really big thank you to Jenny Geras for her invaluable
  editorial guidance, to my wonderful agent Diana Beaumont, of