{"id":428548,"date":"2026-02-16T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428548\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:18:12","slug":"liverpool-mersey-ferry-to-be-sailed-by-woman-in-800-year-first-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428548\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool: Mersey ferry to be sailed by woman in 800-year first &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiXEFVX3lxTE1vYVM2enA2ZUZoZ3kxME1ianIzWk5KNFhidHVzb3RKd1Q3TXBFVGZUOUEzQ1U3NEhET0k1MTlWc3dNNXY1OXMzbHpMOXRHdlZmNzdKLWF2VmlsM3Jq?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Liverpool: Mersey ferry to be sailed by woman in 800-year first<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxNYllxWmFaa1gwal85WnBhU0ZQWVJlQnZibVhCR2VyWGhiWGtCamlvUWZIR3NpeExhZk80SW9oaWNSNnhDQ2FxMGkzaklGaXVrLVBuVjNoVlp1VllidEFYMTN3RWZZYlZ3YkRCUXVOcEZ1V0hjSjdLN1o0UFpFRHJseDJ3OXh0dGR6Si1kQ2ZfTjI3QllJZkYyOHBla1FIS3AwR3RjU3JaZjMzdnRTNWV5RXl3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Liverpool Apprentice set to become first Female Captain in Mersey Ferries History<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Explore Liverpool<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilgFBVV95cUxQaFNYSkxuREZGSmYzcGpuVWtsbFlSb21UZlRuOHMtTWMwNUFkSzR3SlRxbFMxUjJ3RnpMNGNaVlNOcnV1eV9kcHcwRERYN3lqR2tZSmxUWWpSOHFJS2NQX1FzdUczUmxYODlvNFA3dlNIXzQzTHFVMnhPWFNuRkRHRHUxeTJVUlk0QXF5SUwtNFBfQ05ERUHSAZsBQVVfeXFMTzVnZm44bm11YkFhbXFJOFFDUzJLM1hYSmU5enhTdjRrMTNERW9tTFllZl9WaXA0eWpIekw5bUJVUFhwT21nVGlpZzZ4ZXpzUmVMZVduejd1cGdVcV92ZjV1NG5wbHVWMWdHLVpoQy01NG5LcUM4dTJ0cFZCSkJpaXNJdFI5OXVKTHYweEJMQnN3TlRuNXhnS3JmQk0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">It&#8217;s part of the city&#8217;s heartbeat, and Ellie could be about to make history on it<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Liverpool Echo<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0wFBVV95cUxPSm9NMnRYcVNTcDh4dGY1aFBoU091VG9xRzd6SmxGUDIybUNPb2txLWI2ZWppZWxsU3o0TWxmNzNyTkVsaXFISnpVRGF6dFpTUUZUcVNRUVdRbXZxd2tIekRUZmdHU0dfM2tHdXVGT3JBUTVxTU96RnRWVjRmYXBiV0NhWlJEY3JsZGRlS1M0X1Rwdm5yTmZReUlPbzQtR1ozdmVxR09TQm1MYjRUU3RRNVNjbkNwSy1hb0VNWFhJMnRqbFhVbmRpOXp2OFNZLUdaTGFB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Liverpool woman set to make history as the first female captain of the iconic Mersey Ferry<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Liverpool City Region Combined Authority<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool: Mersey ferry to be sailed by woman in 800-year first&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCLiverpool Apprentice set to become first Female Captain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-428548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}