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Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina (Russian: Анна Ивановна Щетинина; 26 February 1908 – 25 September 1999) was a Soviet merchant marine sailor who became the world's first woman to serve as a captain of an ocean-going vessel. [1] [2] Shchetinina was born at the Okeanskaya Station near Vladivostok in a family of a railway switchman. [3]
The 1536 rebuilding turned a ship of 500 tons into one of 700 tons, and added an entire extra tier of broadside guns to the old carrack-style structure. By consequence, modern research is based mostly on interpretations of the concrete physical evidence of this version of the Mary Rose. The construction of the original design from 1509 is less ...
Work assignments include the bridge, where the captain commands the vessel, and the engine room below deck, where massive diesel engines power the Golden Bear on voyages to Asia, Europe and Latin ...
Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Helen Keller. These are a few of the women whose names spark instant recognition of their contributions to American history. But what about the many, many more women who never made it into most . high school history books?
Karin Stahre-Janson is a Swedish cruise ship captain. When she became the commanding officer of Monarch of the Seas in 2007, it was the first time that a woman had been in command of a "mega" cruise ship. Stahre-Janson has also been placed in command of Serenade of the Seas and Majesty of the Seas.
Until January 2010 she was commanding officer of the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens, a major surface combatant vessel of the fleet. She was the first woman to command a cruiser in the history of the U.S. Navy. Earlier, she had been among the first women in the U.S. Navy to command a destroyer when she served as skipper of ...
Modeled after schooner Wanderer (1858); privately owned; commercial charters; sail training vessel; 100 ton captain training. 2 masted gaff; topsail schooner [20] Black Douglas: 1930 Morocco: Privately owned; former school ship 3 masted Marconi/staysail schooner Bluenose II: 1963 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia: Replica of racing/fishing schooner Bluenose
The vessel has covered over 7800 nautical miles from its starting point in Goa, crossing the Equator on 17 September 2017 and Cape Leeuwin on 9 November to reach here. [33] [34] INSV Tarini was thrown open to visitors at Lyttelton Port on 3 December and nearly 200 people visited the vessel. On 12 December 2017 the crew left for the third leg of ...