It is not the master of the first lady of a cruise ship, but when Inger Klein Olsen (photo) took the head of the Cunard Line Queen Victoria on 15 December, she will join a small group of women in male-dominated occupation.
"While we are far from being the first shipping company to have a female captain, should nonetheless when a British institution like Cunard long made a break with the tradition of the harbour master's Office," said Peter Shanks, President of Cunard line.
43 year-old captain Olsen joined Cunard in 1997 as first officer aboard of Caronia line and was then transferred to the fleet Seabourn in 2001, sailing on Seabourn Sun and Seabourn Spirit to be promoted to captain on Seabourn Pride staff in 2003.
Female cruise ship captains are rare.
The very first worlds female master of a ship cruise line major has been Karin Stahre-Janson return in 2007 on Royal Caribbean seas monarch. Since that time, a few other women have been appointed master of a ship on a number of lines.
Earlier this year, Sarah Breton became the first female British vessel P & O Cruises master in the history of the company year 173.
"But as Mark Twain observed curtly,"people of Cunard will appoint Noah itself as Captain until he had worked his way ranks."" "Inger has certainly done that"Shanks continued", and we are delighted to welcome her as our first woman pilot".
Photo courtesy of Cunard Line
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