> As a Russian speaker, I find this sentence grating. Is it normal to refer to a ship with a male name as "she"? Would this be right? Yes. I don't know the his

> As a Russian speaker, I find this sentence grating. Is it normal to refer to a ship with a male name as "she"? Would this be right? Yes. I don't know the history behind it but ships and vessels are generally referred to using female pronouns in English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_English#Ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_English#Ships > (For those that don't know, Russian last names are slightly different depending on the gender. So Admiral Kuznetsov's wife's last name would be Kuznetsova.) e.g. From Wikipedia - "USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier in the service of the United States Navy. The ninth ship of her class,[2] she is named in honor of former President Ronald Reagan" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ronald_Reagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ronald_Reagan