goldencruiser Posted August 8, 2019 #1 Share Posted August 8, 2019 When is Captain Kate leaving the Equinox? We are cruising August 10th and hope she will still be our Captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplsmurf Posted August 8, 2019 #2 Share Posted August 8, 2019 6 minutes ago, goldencruiser said: When is Captain Kate leaving the Equinox? We are cruising August 10th and hope she will still be our Captain. Yes. The August 10 sailing will be her last on the Equinox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelayne Posted August 8, 2019 #3 Share Posted August 8, 2019 She said today she moves to the Edge on 8/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watson50 Posted August 9, 2019 #4 Share Posted August 9, 2019 just watched the Equinox with Capt. Kate depart Nassau for the last time as her captain on Equinox . It was great to hear the Equinox and MSC Seaside exchange whistle blasts to give the Captain a great send off goodbye. Having sailed with her before, I wish her good health smooth sailing and keep being the wonderful person you are. Good luck to you Captain Kate. Can't wait until we meet again. Thoughtfully yours, Keith Watt. 😍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Presto2 Posted August 10, 2019 #5 Share Posted August 10, 2019 On 8/8/2019 at 2:11 AM, jelayne said: She said today she moves to the Edge on 8/21 Oh thought it was the 19th when we leave Civitavecchia unless she joins us in Malta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbinMich Posted August 10, 2019 #6 Share Posted August 10, 2019 We had Capt. Kate on our Can-NE cruise on the Summit back in fall 2015. I'm thinking it was her time at the helm or close to it. She came to a CC function and we were quite impressed and happy to see a woman finally at the helm. Don't know if any other lines have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCruise Posted August 10, 2019 #7 Share Posted August 10, 2019 7 minutes ago, BarbinMich said: We had Capt. Kate on our Can-NE cruise on the Summit back in fall 2015. I'm thinking it was her time at the helm or close to it. She came to a CC function and we were quite impressed and happy to see a woman finally at the helm. Don't know if any other lines have one. There are about a dozen women captains of major lines and more on smaller lines, river cruises and the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbinMich Posted August 10, 2019 #8 Share Posted August 10, 2019 27 minutes ago, ECCruise said: There are about a dozen women captains of major lines and more on smaller lines, river cruises and the like. So she wasn't the first, but pretty sure she was the first on Celebrity. Do you happen to know which cruise line/ship was the first to have a woman captain? And when the first woman captained a ship? We've done 52 ocean cruises on 3 lines and she's the only woman captain we've had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCruise Posted August 10, 2019 #9 Share Posted August 10, 2019 5 minutes ago, BarbinMich said: So she wasn't the first, but pretty sure she was the first on Celebrity. Do you happen to know which cruise line/ship was the first to have a woman captain? And when the first woman captained a ship? We've done 52 ocean cruises on 3 lines and she's the only woman captain we've had. The first woman appointed captain of a cruise ship was Karin Stahre-Janson of Sweden, who took command of Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas in 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbinMich Posted August 11, 2019 #10 Share Posted August 11, 2019 On 8/10/2019 at 3:26 PM, ECCruise said: The first woman appointed captain of a cruise ship was Karin Stahre-Janson of Sweden, who took command of Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas in 2007 Thanks for that info! Following in Stahre-Jansen and Royal Caribbean's footsteps were the P&O Cruises with the promotion of Captain Sarah Breton in 2010 and Cunard's Captain Inger Olsen also in 2010. Wikipedia says Stahre-Janson was the first woman to captain a "mega" cruise ship. Course what was "mega" in 2007 is different from what it is today, probably. Other ships she captained: Serenade OTS (2010) and Majesty OTS (2013). She may be retired now--Wikipedia was not clear about that. All three of "her" ships were in the 74000-90000 GT size. By comparison Capt. Kate's current ship, the Equinox, is 122,000 GT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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