How about posting links to such stories. The nearest google could come up with was a story from 2002 about Lloyds Register of Shipping in which an RN spokesman's quoted as saying: "Lloyd's List is at liberty to do what they like, but the Navy intends to continue in a tradition that goes back centuries, if not millennia."

Telegraph story from 2002

"this means the end of the horse-drawn Zeppelin!" - N Seagoon