это скорее интернациональная черта моряков: называть корабли "она", "девочка"
не все корабли, разумеется
и голландец для такого слишком брутален, кмк

Генрих,
ну в Пиратах... девочки вообще довольно брутальны :Р

Про нож пруф
And because killing with a
knife entailed closing with your foe so that you smelled him and saw
his wild eyes and heard his breath and felt his blood spatter you even
as you sometimes stained him with your own, because a knife, in
brief, was a far more intimate weapon than a gun, it was generally
regarded as female. They called their cutters by the names of wives
and sweethearts—Sally, Molly Jean, Annie, Rachel, Maggie May—
and of women they knew as deadly legend: Jezebel and Delilah and
Bloody Mary, Salome and Lady Macbeth.

не, девочкой была жемчужина
и кракен убил её, чтоб отомстить отвергнувшему его кораблю джонса