[Joey]

[coldrain108]

who are we to question if the ship self identifies as female...even if it has a wiener and beans.

[cdestroyer]

(from an old salt) SHE, the ship. is your mother. she feeds you, houses you, provides you comfort in a storm, transports you from your homeport to your duty station overseas and safely home again. You, lowly swab jockies care for her like a mother,you paint her, clean her, feed her fuel. And without her it is a long long loonngg swim home.

[DIYSteve]

FTR, I never once painted my mother, and anyone who has is a sicko.

[JEGeorge]

We now instead of calling our aircraft "she" have to call them equally She, He and does not gender specify haha. Wonder if that will bleed over. (I'm kidding though)

[cdestroyer]

bigsteve says:FTR, I never once painted my mother, and anyone who has is a sicko. Sicko? I was waiting for you. There is always someone like you. But wait I just remembered. I am a vet. I served my country in a war to preserve our way of life and the constitution. Freedom of speech. Ya thats the one. People like you have the right to say whatever you please no matter how wrong, vulgar, loud, discourteous, rude or obnoxious. I served just for you bigsteve. say what you want.

[Quark]

So I was thinking the other day, on the anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, as I do every year - if a ship is named, for instance, the Edmund Fitzgerald, is the ship still a she?

[Malachai Constant]

Most ships are named for men in the Navy and they are all shes.

[Matt]

It's a convention that varies somewhat by nationality. My Russian co-workers refers to all ships as "he."

[Schenk]

[Jumble Jowls]

Unless a ship (or a chair, or a hurricane) has the requisite parts, a ship is an "it."

[mike]

[coldrain108]

[Malachai Constant]

Navy had a convention battleships after states, cruisers after cities, carriers navy battles, or famous ships, destroyers sailors, transports after capitalists, subs after fish, Polaris subs presidents, etc. now they have changed it somewhat.

[Voxxjin]