Because he saw a shark ate a seagull when he first built that ship.
Jack London's ship was named the "Snark" after a character in Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark." London found the name fitting as he believed his voyage was an adventurous and elusive journey, similar to the quest in Carroll's poem.
The jack is the spar pole on the bow of a ship, where the Union Jack or other Jack (a type of flag is flown).
was there a ship named stario in 1890?
On his first expedition, his ship was named the Nimrod. On his second expedition, his ship was named the Endurance, and on his final expedition his ship was named the Quest.
The ship was named the Mayflower.
The Black Pearl. The real ship used in the movie just sank off the coast of SC in "Sandy". She was a movie ship made for the movie Mutiny on the Bounty and for some reason was heading to FLA when the storm hit.
The proper name of the flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the Union flag, so named because it unites the flags of England, Scotland, Northen Ireland and Wales. It is only called the Union Jack when it hangs from the Jack mast of a ship.
It is called "christening" the ship. When a ship is named, it is "christened."
Does anyone know if there was a ship named southern belle that sank from a giant wave
Pippi Longstocking's dad's ship is named Hoppetossa.
Completely fictional. There was a 17 year-old named Jack Thayer who survived the sinking by diving off the ship and balancing on top of an overturned collapsible lifeboat.
Yes, the slave ship was named Jesus of Lubeck. John Hawkins arrived with the first batch of slaves to the Americas in 1555.
The first ship in the navy named after an enlisted man was the USS Osmand Ingram.