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**** And even she's now been retired and a museum ship in California, though they are required to keep her in a state such that she can be reinstated if necessary
* Ironically, nearly every movie that uses models to portray real ships also fails to pay shipping charges, if only because it's [[Special Effects Failure|impossible to scale water]].
* One of the most aggravating conventions in some circles is to have a sailing ship referred to as a pirate ship, even if it is a coal-hauler no doubt. Attention, piracy is not a generic term for [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]]. Piracy is armed robbery that happens to take place at sea.
*Another even more common one is to refer to a ship as a boat. Ships are ships. Boats are little watercraft that are small enough to be contained in ships. Of course there are ambiguities which are hard to get right. For instance submarines were always called boats because they were once thought of as another kind of torpedo boat, or something like that, and they remain "boats" even when some of them are now capable of blowing up the world. Nevertheless know the difference. Using the word boat for a ship will mark you at once will mark you as a member of the [[Acceptable Targets|never-sufficiently-despised]] breed known as ''landlubbers''.
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