Ah, but are you still a forest now? The point is this, one can start out one thing and wind up entirely different based on the experiences given to them. My experiences made me into a vampire, yours made you into a ship. And then a human. Though I'll never try to understand a ship's mind, only know that they've got one, and a soul to match.
Another question I'd actually have posed to Pearl, had she been here; Ships speak, don't they? They have their own language, but they speak. Pearl spoke to Jack, and the Freedom - the ship Jack had in more recent years was just gaining her voice. No doubt you spoke to Davy and to the damned crew. It's always been a belief of mine, I would just rather have it answered truthfully.
Forgive me if that sounds odd at all, or is just common knowledge. It's been a long while since I could separate between truth and opinion in matters of the unknown.