The Captain's Table is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Jack Lee and starring John Gregson, Donald Sinden, Peggy Cummins and Nadia Gray.

After serving all his working life with the South Star line, exclusively in cargo ships, Captain Albert Ebbs meets his employer and is finally given command (albeit temporarily) of the SS Queen Adelaide, a ocean liner sailing from London to Sydney.

He must also cope with amorous widows, young couples who want him to marry them and a blustering ex-army major who claims to have the ear of the chairman of the shipping line.

[3]Dirk Bogarde had been preparing a film about Lawrence of Arabia written by Terence Rattigan and directed by Anthony Asquith which was cancelled by Rank in February 1959 shortly before shooting was to begin.

"So for three months we stayed in Southend and commuted to the Docks where myriad arc lamps simulated the Mediterranean sun while the girls tried to hide their goose pimples," wrote Sinden.

[6] Location shooting took place at Tilbury Docks and involved the Orient Line's SS Orsova, with a fake "Queen Adelaide" nameplate covering her real name.

[8] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Except for a homosexual steward, played with relish by Reginald Beckwith, this mechanical farce relies entirely on stock characters and situations of depressing banality.