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Re: Himself? Herself?

I may be old-fashioned, but isn't the convention to call the ships of one's nation (UK in this case) "she" and the ships of other nations "it"? "She is a beauty" about "Prince of Wales", but "It is a big and ugly chunk of metal" when talking of "Gerald Ford"? On this side of the pond, that is...