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Submitting. More than three decades after her death, Whitby Civic Society is to remember skipper Dora Walker, author and museum curator, with a blue plaque to honour her remarkable feats. Photographs of Dora Walker from the Frank Meadow Sutcliffe collection, courtesy of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society and the Whitby Museum. Here was someone who wouldn t be told a woman s place , said the shipping curator at Whitby Museum, Dennis Buck, and for that she should be admired. The more we delve into Dora Walker s life, the more remarkable she seems, said Mr Buck. There s this image of her fishing, pistol on her hip, throwing lobster pots. And then there s this image of this beautifully dressed lady, for she was a lady. She was both. ....