'She' no longer sails the seas in shipping newspaper
Associated Press
LONDON -- Ending centuries of seafaring tradition, a shipping
industry newspaper said yesterday it will no longer refer to ships
with the feminine pronoun ''she.''
Lloyd's List, which is one of the world's oldest daily publications,
said in the future it will refer to all vessels as ''it.''
In an editorial, the newspaper said it was time
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