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by Joske Vermeule, September 1
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Looking Good Moggo, I was sailing a cold Moulded 50' today in an Anzac Day regatta (built in 1905) no winches so can feel it in the arms tonight.
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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
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Interesting.
Queen Elizabeth is named after a female but must be gender neutral. So It must replace She? Does the Queen object to naming a ship after her and refering to the ship as “she”?
HMS Iron Duke also gender neutral with a masculine name.
What do the crew of Iron Duke use? She? He? It?
As most RN ships seem to be named after places or have celebratory or fearsome names that are already gender neutral why not keep the tradition of “she” ?
PC is making a mockery of non offensive terminology that has lasted for centuries just to avoid attracting over zealous critics.
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My Brother in Law had the best name for his on line purchased boat- The Bortony Bay went down well, literally. ...except in Moggo's case, that doesn't work. Maid Inmyshed perhaps ? Nice project Moggo.
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HMS Battleaxe - named after Mother in Law?
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Few years ago I met an ex RN Lt who served on HMS Dainty.
Hmmmmm.......
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Few years ago I met an ex RN Lt who served on HMS Dainty.
Hmmmmm.......
Hello Sailor! When the American invasion ship USS Ponce visited Pompey in the 80s with it's complement of 400 US Marines, I remember our skipper on HMS Woodlark warning the crew that Flag Officer Portsmouth had decreed that in view of the name, any punch ups with the US matelots or Marines would be deemed to have been started by RN personnel. As to the whole question of a boat's gender, one of the panelists on the news quiz made a good point. Why stop at gender ? If a ship decides that it wants to be a train (say) who are we to stand in it's way ?
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...the motto of the French Navy. A l'eau, c'est l'heure.
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...the motto of the French Navy. A l'eau, c'est l'heure. That took me a while! 
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And you cannot call them Bond Girls anymore. The world has gone mad.
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