Posted by Paul Flint on March 25, 2002 at 22:00:58 from 195.92.194.13:
In Reply to: Re: Ships as "she" posted by ken buchanan on March 24, 2002 at 01:45:15:
The following letter appear's in today's Daily Telegraph:
"Sir, The RNLI's reasons for calling a ship "she" (letter, Mar 22) fail to include an argument for this terminology that was used in respect of warships in the 18th Century, namely "because it costs so much to keep a vessel in paint and powder"".