The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.
My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship.
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.
There can be only one Captain to a ship.
I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.