Congratulations to Captain Kate McCue. This August, she will take command of the Celebrity Summit, sailing from Bermuda from the East Coast. She will be the first American woman to command a large cruise ship. The Celebrity Summit is a 91,000-ton ship which can carry 2,158 passengers and 952 crew. Captain McCue, 37, previously sailed for Royal Caribbean Lines, Celebrity Cruises parent company. She is a graduate of California Maritime Academy. Thanks to Mai Armstrong on the Working Harbor Committee blog for passing along the news.
In 2010, we posted about Inger Klein Olsen, the first female Cunard captain on the Queen Victoria.