[HiTech RedNeck]

This is a British vessel. HMS = His/Her Majesty’s Ship.

I say good for Britain, they were hurtling in that direction. So let them perform the social experiment of a captain they call ma’am on a coed ship. And let’s hear the stories.

None of this is in the US Navy. Yet.

Maybe there ought to be an all-femme ship. The USS PMS???

[wxgesr]

“None of this is in the US Navy. Yet.”

Come on man, where you been? Ya didn’t read about
CAPT Holly Graf?

[Oztrich Boy]

Holly Graf

[Yorlik803]

All female ship. That would called a tuna boat.

[Yorlik803]

All female ship. That would be called a tuna boat.

[QT3.14]

This is a British vessel. HMS = His/Her Majesty’s Ship.

PMS [Name of ship]?

None of this is in the US Navy. Yet.

You’re way behind times!

• 1990 - LCDR Darlene Iskra - First to assume command of a ship (USS Opportune (ARS-41).

• 1998 CDR Maureen A. Farren - First to command a surface combatant ship ( USS MT. VERNON (LSD 39)

• 2010 - RDML Nora Tyson - first to take command of a Carrier Strike Group.

  Other women firsts in the USN

  But this:

  Unfortunately, the latest benchmark isn't one to brag about: being booted as captain of a billion-dollar warship for "cruelty and maltreatment" of her 400-member crew. According to the Navy inspector general's report that triggered her removal — and the accounts of officers who served with her — Captain Holly Graf was the closest thing the U.S. Navy had to a female Captain Bligh.

  A Navy admiral stripped Graf of her command of the Japan-based guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Cowpens in January. The just-released IG report concludes that Graf "repeatedly verbally abused her crew and committed assault" and accuses her of using her position as commander of the Cowpens "for personal gain." But old Navy hands tell TIME that those charges, substantiated in the IG report, came about because of the poisonous atmosphere she created aboard her ship.

  The Rise and Fall of a Female Captain Bligh