Celebrity Cruises President and CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo today announced that Capt. Kate McCue, the first American female cruise ship captain, will take the helm of Celebrity Beyond, the company’s third ship in its Edge Series, set for delivery from shipbuilder Chantiers de l’Atlantique in spring 2022.
McCue is a California Maritime Academy graduate whose path to becoming a captain came following a cruise the then-12-year-old took with her family. She told her father that she wanted to be a cruise...