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a hollow gamble against the sea that mostly, miraculously, wins.
means A large watercraft built to carry people or cargo across open water, or the verb for sending goods off to their destination.
from From Old English 'scip,' with cousins all across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'skip,' Dutch 'schip,' German 'Schiff' — pointing back to a shared Proto-Germanic root 'skipa-.' The deeper origin is murky; some link it to a notion of a hollowed-out or cut log, the first boats being trees carved into vessels, but that's an educated guess rather than settled fact. The 'send goods' meaning is much later, sailing in on the back of the noun once shipping cargo became routine.
- always she
- Tradition genders every vessel female, even warships
- church origin
- Sanctuary part of a church is called the nave, from navis
- sunk count
- Roughly three million wrecks litter the ocean floor
- loaded line
- The Plimsoll mark shows legal maximum load worldwide
- first delivery
- A ship's earliest cargo was often itself, sailed home
titanic — british passenger liner that sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg, killing ~1,500 people
hms victory — admiral nelson's flagship at the battle of trafalgar in 1805, now preserved in portsmouth
uss enterprise — u.s. navy aircraft carrier commissioned in 1961, longest-serving carrier in history
mary celeste — american merchant ship found abandoned in 1872 with crew vanished, in the atlantic ocean