This works for me (Win XP, Perl Activestate 5.8.8). 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use HTML::TableExtract;
use WWW::Mechanize;
$Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;

my $url = "http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/cruiseships.phtml";

my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$m->get($url);
die unless $m->success;
my $input = $m->content;

my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new(
  headers => [qw(Ship position)]
) or die qq{$!};

$te->parse($input);
foreach my $row ($te->rows) {
  print Dumper($row);
}

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outputs (extract) 
$VAR1 = [
  'Carnival Freedom',
  "N 18\x{b0}30', W 077\x{b0}06'"
];
$VAR1 = [
  'Carnival Glory',
  "N 19\x{b0}24', W 064\x{b0}48'"
];
$VAR1 = [
  'Azamara Journey',
  "S 35\x{b0}06', W 056\x{b0}48'"
];

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In reply to Re: Extracted HTML table by wfsp
in thread Extracted HTML table by mcoblentz

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