Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kate McCue (born January 6, 1978) [1] [2] is an American cruise ship captain. She is currently employed by Celebrity Cruises and is the captain of the Celebrity Beyond.. When she became the commanding officer of Celebrity Summit in 2015, it was the first time that an American woman had been named captain of a "Mega" cruise ship.
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]
Sailing under Captain William Wilson, she was the first of five 500-ton immigrant ships hired by the New Zealand Company to take settlers to Wellington in 1839. Aurora , Adelaide , Duke of Roxburgh , and Bengal Merchant , plus a freight vessel, the Glenbervie , followed, all sailing with instructions to rendezvous on 10 January 1840 at Port ...
Originally built for the U.S. Navy, the ship was transferred to Cal Maritime in 1996 and has provided a hands-on learning experience for cadets who study the design of the vessel and navigate ...
Marwa Elselehdar (sometimes written El-Selehdar; Arabic: مروة السلحدار) is the first Egyptian female ship captain.She graduated from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport in 2013, the first female graduate of the Department of Maritime Transport and Technology, and as of April 2021 has a rank of first mate on the Aida IV.
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 ...
A Master 100/50/25 ton may also operate uninspected vessels of up to 100GT as allowed under the OUPV credential. In order to qualify for a Master, 100/50/25 Ton license, one must demonstrate at least 720 days of service (90 within the past 3 years) on any vessel. There are two different variables in this license; tonnage and distance offshore.
SS Oronsay was the second Orient Line ship built after World War II.A sister ship to Orcades, she was named after the island of Oronsay off the west coast of Scotland. [2]The liner was completed in 1951 at Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, but was delivered several months behind schedule because of a serious fire that broke out in the fitting-out berth.