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As a womb is a vessel for the unborn; all ships are vessels. Hence.
The ship has a feminine gender because, in Roman times, before a ship set sail, they would offer a prayer to the goddesses to ask them to help protect the ship. They then dedicated the ship to these goddesses. Thus, the feminine gender.
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