First American Woman to Captain a Cruise Ship Delivers Master Class on How to Shut Down Sexist Trolls

Although McCue was the first American woman to captain a cruise ship, she is not the first woman in the world to do so. Captain Karin Stahre-Janson, from Sweden, became the first female cruise ship captain in the world in 2007, also manning a Celebrity Cruises ship. The world’s first black woman cruise ship captain, Belinda Bennet, took the helm of a Windstar Cruises ship in 2016.