Two or three times a century, a ship may call from some other colony.

"I heard someone say we're on board a ship called the Enterprise."

The ship that has gone out with him we call she.

I think you should stay with my friends until the next ship calls on its way back to England.

Wouldn't you expect a ship in trouble to call for help?

The next thing I knew, the ship was calling me.

What were the ships called, he wondered, and had the families of the crews been told?

You said that ships call here every two months.

She had missed Gibraltar, although the ship hadn't called there.