Heave-ho! Cunard tosses tradition overboard

Thursday, 10 Dec, 2010 0

Cunard has made a break with tradition by appointing its first female captain.

Inger Klein Olsen, 43, assumed command of Cunard’s Queen Victoria on Wednesday this week.

Her first task as captain was to take the ship to dry-dock in Hamburg for a planned refit but next week she will be on the bridge as the ship sets sail with a full complement of passengers.

Cunard’s president and managing director, Peter Shanks, said, “While we are far from being the first shipping company to have a female captain, it is nonetheless noteworthy when such a long-established British institution as Cunard makes a break with its captaincy tradition.”

Captain Olsen was born and brought up in the Faroe Islands.



 

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