# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-brown-patten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:28:26.657Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-brown-patten"
name: "Mary Ann Brown Patten"
slug: "mary-ann-brown-patten"
description: "Mary Ann Brown Patten or Patton was the first female commander of an American merchant vessel. She was the wife of Joshua Adams Patten, captain of the merchant clipper ship Neptune's Car. The ship was bound around Cape Horn from New York towards San Francisco when Joshua Patten collapsed from fatigue in 1856. His wife took command for 56 days, faced down a mutiny, and successfully managed to navigate the clipper ship into San Francisco. At the time of docking, she was 19 years old and eight months pregnant with her only child."
tagline: "American sailor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Ann_Brown_Patten.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1837-04-06"
deathDate: "1861-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.675924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "瑪麗·安·布朗·帕滕"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Ann Brown Patten"
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    title: "Mary Ann Brown Patten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Brown_Patten"
    title: "Mary Ann Brown Patten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "מרי אן בראון פטן"
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    title: "Մերի Փեթեն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пэттен, Мэри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Ann Patten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8C%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "మేరీ ఆన్ బ్రౌన్ పాటెన్"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мері Паттен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump