I wouldn't sail this ship if I were you
1. Tradition relates that there is a mountain in the Himalayas that is in fact a particularly large onion. This is difficult to discern from a distance as it is covered with a mixture of dirt and snow. Because of its remote location, it is largely ignored by local government authorities even though they have been aware of it for some time. However, a freak avalanche causing widespread weeping is a scenario that has been covered in disaster preparedness exercises by both China and India.
2. A little-known evolutionary meander followed the asteroid impact which wiped out the dinosaurs. A surviving group of pterosaurs, finding themselves devoid of joy on Earth’s post-apocalyptic surface, determined to backtrack down the phylogenetic tree with the hope of maybe ending up as seaweed. Not being genetic experts, they took a wrong turn in the ammonite region and ended up transforming themselves into aubergines. This is why the original aubergines were the size of pterosaurs. Modern-day aubergines are much smaller.
3. Although (contrary to the story of Cinderella) no large pumpkin has ever been used as a carriage, there did once exist a pumpkin which was used as a hovercraft. Problems seating the fan assembly led to the airflow being provided by an array of flatulent anacondas instead. The arrival of the pumpkin hovercraft was thus perpetually heralded by an unusual smell. Nobody would hire it as transport to their royal balls and as a result no further pumpkin hovercraft were ever made.
4. Interestingly, although the tomato is commonly thought to be a vegetable, it is actually a close relative of the sparrow. It gained its honorary vegetable status after a swap with the city of Cairo, which was briefly changed into an enormous vegetable during the reign of Saladin. Confusion over whether modern Cairo is technically a bird or technically a city has persisted in some of the more traditional dictionaries to this day.
5. The Himalia group of Jupiter’s moons are often considered to be the remnants of the break-up of a larger asteroid. In fact, they have similar orbits because they grew that way. They are our solar system’s only example of space lemons, a type of giant vegetable unusually common in the interstellar void but rather rarer in the vicinity of G-type stars. Space lemons, which root in dark matter and do not require sunlight, are edible and in fact delicious. Some alien species have embedded generation ships in them to take advantage of the abundant food supply.