A new Gavin MacLeod at Princess Cruises?

Clearly, there's somebody in the Princess Cruises human resources department with a sense of humor.

The line on Wednesday revealed that it's now employing a young bridge officer by the name of Gavin MacLeod -- the same name as the 81-year-old actor who helped put the line on the map in the 1970s as "Captain Stubing" on TV's Love Boat. As of last week, in fact, the two are becoming fast friends.

 

Princess says the actor, who has serves for years as a Princess ambassador, met up with the younger MacLeod for lunch on the 1,970-passenger Island Princess after it sailed into Los Angeles. The younger MacLeod, from Inverness, Scotland, is the ship's third officer.

 

Princess says the pair signed several navigational charts to be auctioned for charity and ate in the ship's Italian restaurant, Sabatini's.