Re the original topic, I've always wondered why there are so few casualties in Cuba due to Hurricanes.
They suffer economic damage, but you hardly hear of human losses in the scale of Katrina.
Re the ship damage, the Battleship Bismarck was officially "he", by order of Kapt. z. S. Lindemann.
But this was not consistently used and even the XO used the "she" form during the battle of Denmark strait "ein dreifaches Hurra auf unsere geliebte Bismarck!"
Other german ships were officially male too, like Admiral Scheer.
Tirpitz, despite being named after a man as well, was always female, though.
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