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“They said I wasn’t qualified to be a bartender, as I had never served a drink in my life, but took me on as a third mate.”
In 2003, she moved to Royal Caribbean as a second officer, where she saw more scope for career progression, and she spent the next 12 years at the cruise giant “working my way up”. In 2015, Kate got a call from Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, the president of Celebrity Cruises, a cruise brand under the Royal Caribbean Group. She was asked if she would become captain of Celebrity Summit.
The response Kate recalls is typical of her: “Hell yes” was the answer.
Their ship finally came in.
After years of political wrangling in Washington, Texas A&M University at Galveston on Monday received news it had long hoped for: Congress had approved funding to build a brand new training ship.
As part of the $1.4 trillion appropriation act and COVID-19 relief bill passed by Congress on Monday, the U.S. Maritime Administration received $390 million to fund the construction of a 525-foot ship called a National Security Multi-Mission Vessel.
Once built, the ship will be stationed at Texas A&M Universityâs Pelican Island campus and serve as the primary training vessel for the Texas Maritime Academy.