Looking at the photo of HMS Forth, I don't know about "Manned" but it's definitely masculine...
Puny human sailors still needed... until drone machine learning tech catches up
Drones won’t replace proper sailors anytime soon because, believe it or not, they need more manpower to operate, a Royal Navy admiral has insisted. Naval drones are “not about reducing the requirement for people”, Rear Admiral Paul Bennett told a press briefing attended by El Reg on Friday. Instead, they are for putting people …
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Monday 17th October 2016 13:27 GMT allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
"The challenge for today’s drone control system designers is to hone their systems into being able to make autonomous decisions at a certain level."
Hmm. Why am I thinking of Isaac Asimov's The Machine That Won The War all of a sudden?
EDIT: looks like there is a dead link on the linked page (the one to the story itself), so here's another one that has a synopsis.