15/3/06

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The Arethusa, a bulk carrier of Panamanian registry, was taking grain this morning next to the Steel Bridge.

I thought seafaring folk were supposed to be superstitious. Well, they weren't superstitious enough in naming this ship.

Arethusa is the name of a nymph in Greek mythology, a pal of Artemis and a determined maiden. Uninterested in the advances of some lusty river god, she ran off. He chased her across the sea (thus, I'm thinking, the foolish popularity of this name for ships), and in an odd bit of half-luck, Arethusa was saved when Artemis turned her into a fountain. Artemis does not, you note, do anything to the river god.

*sigh*

When you're named Arethusa, I guess you take what you can get, and consider yourself lucky. Or half-lucky.

Tales of some half-lucky ships. With pirates. )

So here's hoping that this Arethusa finds the other half of her luck, and leads an uneventful and pirate-free life all the rest of her days.

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