"Daggers of Darkness, Book 3, On the Trail of Legends" - Chapter 5
"um, well, that's a tradition that started with the humans thousands of years ago, i guess, when they first started naming boats and ships for use on water, and later, aircraft, and then spacecraft.
Episode 12: Starship Down
It had been developed to help stranded crews awaiting rescue near hostile borders, the idea of it being a rescue beacon that wouldn't attract attention from anyone other than friendly spacecraft.
Joey & The Flying Machine Pt. I (2015)
Joey flipped the light on and stepped into rob's office that was decorated with all the stuff rob liked; cameras, planes, and spacecraft.
Hurricane Kim Chapter 22
Fleets of peanut shaped spacecraft seemed to trade fire with equally sized fleets of dark spheres. vessels of both sides erupted into infernos that quickly extinguished as they were struck by weapons both visible and not.