Captains

Captains have responsibility for ship and crew.

When did starship captains develop the habit of … talking like … this?

I'm one of the team's captains.

If I hear one more song about sailors or captains, I'm going to jump off a bridge.

And in the cloud unseen, / wrapt in its hollow covering, they abide / and note what fortune did their friends betide, / and whence they come, and why for grace they sue, / and on what shore they left the fleet to bide, / for chosen captains came from every crew, / and towards the sacred fane with clamorous cries they drew.

With joy from out the hollow wood they bound; / first, dire Ulysses, with his captains two, / Thessander bold and Sthenelus renowned, / down by a pendent rope come sliding to the ground. / Then Thoas comes; and Acamas, athirst / for blood; and Neoptolemus, the heir / of mighty Peleus; and Machaon first; / and Menelaus; and himself is there, / Epeus, framer of the fatal snare.

So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him. And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots that were in Egypt: and the captains of the whole army.

Pharaoh's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.

Captains should not exchange between themselves superior and inferior officers and privates, without a written decree of the commander of the fleet, under penalty of a fine equivalent to a monthly salary.

We talk to Jess Yeomans, one of two women tugboat captains in New York Harbor about the challenges she faces in everyday work and the art she creates when not skippering boats.