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It did not seem likely to me, on the whole, that there would be a connection between the two names, that of the woman and the ship. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 36, Sentence #74)

This was the vessel which had engaged, and destroyed, the Cosian raider on the voyage north from Brundisium to Port Kar. I did not know, of course, if there might be any relationship between the name of the ship and the Lady Dorna whom I had encountered so unpleasantly some weeks ago. I still remembered the terrible tunic of pain and the noxious fumes she had inflicted on me in her apartment. It did not seem likely to me, on the whole, that there would be a connection between the two names, that of the woman and the ship. Ships are often given a feminine name, and, for all I knew, 'Dorna' might be a familiar woman's name on this world. Bosk of Port Kar's smallest ship was the swift Tesephone, it also bearing a woman's name, though one of a rather Cosian ring. "You had best return to the tables," said Portia. - (Quarry of Gor)