March 2025 - The Captain's Table

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A Woman and the Big Ship: Elaine Kaplan and the SS United States

March 30, 2025 Zach W. 0

A complex engineering marvel, the SS United States remains the fastest ocean liner ever built. She smashed the Queen Mary’s coveted transatlantic speed record on […]

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Book Review: Maiden Voyages by Siân Evans

March 26, 2025 Zach W. 0

Great transatlantic liners like Mauretania, Lusitania, Aquitania, Olympic, Île de France, Imperator, Rex, Normandie, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth dominated the first half of the […]

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No Room for Complacency: Cruise Ships & Modern Piracy

March 24, 2025 Zach W. 0

Setting sail on a world cruise is an exciting adventure. Especially when it’s aboard a brand-new ship like the Queen Anne. The Cunard Line has […]

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Book Review: Making Waves by Lisa Lutoff-Perlo

March 19, 2025 Zach W. 0

Lisa Lutoff-Perlo is a “badass CEO” who changed Celebrity Cruises and — as a result — the entire cruise industry. In her autobiography, Making Waves, […]

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Captain Kate McCue Joins Four Seasons Yachts

March 18, 2025 Zach W. 0

Captain Kate is going back to sea. Not that we ever thought her seafaring days were over! She even said as much. The famous cruise […]

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A Break with Tradition: Captain Inger Klein Thorhauge

March 16, 2025 Zach W. 0

Inger Klein Thorhauge (née Olsen) made history in December 2010 when the Cunard Line promoted her to captain of MV Queen Victoria. It was a […]

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The Unsinkable Suffragists of Titanic’s Lifeboat No. 6

March 10, 2025 Zach W. 0

The new White Star liner RMS Titanic departed from Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, on April 11, 1912, with several suffragists aboard. United in a common […]