When a ship, boat is given a male name, is it referred in a male gender as is "he is a good ship"?

In old nautical superstition, it was considered extremely bad luck to give your ship a male name. Even so, the ship was considered a home, a mother, if you will, so it was always referred to as a her.

When a ship, boat is given a male name, is it referred in a male gender as is "he is a good ship"?
Yes, names depend on the culture. BTW as any sailor knows, Ships do not go underwater. Only Boats (submarines) do that.
Reply:You mean the good ship lollipop.
Reply:Most of the time NO, However I know of such a case that being the captain of the battleship BISMARCK refused to tolerate anyone refering to his ship as she.
Reply:different cultures have different traditions.......Germans and Russians call their ships he, Americans and Brits she......even if there's a male name.......so a US sailor would say of the Dwight Eisenhower " She's a good old boat"........
Reply:yes!
Reply:Only when the Captain is gay I believe, or a female captain. Think about ! No mater the name, it is refered to as she. It's a commitment thing.
Reply:There WAS one ship of which I'm aware that was given a male name and was always spoken of as "he" (by Adolf Hitler)... The German battleship "Bismarck" which sunk the HMS Hood. The ship was later disabled by a torpedo from a Swordfish biplane, which struck the rudder, jamming it and rendering the ship helpless until it was shelled and torpedoed by the British ships HMS Rodney, King George V, Norfolk and Dorsetshire and finally scuttled by the crew May 27, 1941 off the coast of Brest, France.