What is a female captain of a ship called?
What is a female captain of a ship called? “Captainess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/captainess.
Why can ship captains marry couples?
It's fiction. Ship captains have the authority to allow or disallow an on-board marriage ceremony but is himself unauthorised to perform it. It is performable only by a person authorised by the ship's registered country's laws to perform marriage at sea — which often means the ship's chaplain.