isnt ship feminine? as in 'she sank to the bottom'
or
'The Bonnie Belle is a sailing ship. She is very seaworthy.'
and an interesting point after a quick google search:
All this can be seen for the English-language folk-etymology DRECK that it
really is by listening to sailors (i.e., people who have actual
experience on ships rather than n-tuple-removed theoretical knowledge),
who say that a ship is only animate-feminine when 'manned'; when the ship
is decomissioned and without human activity (in mothballs), the ship is
referred to as 'it' -- pointing to the actual ANIMACY conferred by he/she
rather than just sexual genitalia, as we normally do in English.

bleh grammar on...