# ship type *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 Nov 2007* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Ashley Crill *27 Nov 2007, 18:59* > Hmm, > perhaps "pelagic" is the only sort of vessel *not* encountered in > Severian's chronicle, though the crypt would seem to depict one. I'm quite certain that the ship depicted on Severian's tomb is the spaceship on which he sailed between the universes. Its not a terrestrial ship at all, and Wolfe's initial use of the word "ship" is intentionally misleading. ---