A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.
Ships are like children: they need individual attention.
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.
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.
Ships are expendable; the whales are not.
My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.