People sometimes say 'he' or 'she' about things they're personally attached to. It sounds wierd to everyone else, but not to the people who say it. I think it sounds just as wierd in any language (except those which have grammatical gender, like German or French).

In older times, some sailors got really attached to their ship and called it 'she'. I have no idea why, but my guess is that after spending a months at sea only in the company of other men, they got so horny that they preferred to refer to their ship to be a woman. I've heard that it originally came Old English, which had grammatical genders, but sailors are the only people who have continued it.

To you and me, a ship is called 'it' just like any other object. Only sailors call a ship 'she' (usually only THEIR ship), just like professional car racers sometimes call their car 'she'.

I am learning English and I cannot understand why the English call their country England "she" too?

By the way, I do not want to complain or something, but this would better have been submitted as a question instead of a discussion maybe? This while the question section has a lot of questions that are not language related and could move to discussion. Yes well, I am just really for putting the right information at the right spots. Just my quirck, I am not the modurator I know it.

Ships should be refered to by the same terminology assigned to all  other objects in our languages.

calling ships (she) is , at best, ancient ,outdated and colloquial usage. simply because we use

standard english (american and British ). it is how the english language use. simply how the english language works with ships....as captains really love their ships

Of course!