<font face=“georgia,palatino” size="3]Starbucks was chosen because of it’s nautical origins. </font>
<font face=“georgia,palatino” size=“3]</font><font face=“Georgia, serif” color=”#000000]<font size="3]Starbuck is the character in
the 1851 novel Moby-Dick
by author Herman
Melville. Strong and steady, Starbuck serves as first mate on the
whaling ship Pequod under the command of the mad Captain Ahab.</font></font>
I would have gone for the Moby Dick reference, but it looks like that is already taken- so I will go for the mermaid on the logo. Mermaids are the tricksters that lure desparate mariners into the deep cold sea to meet thier doom.
And Starbucks is everywhere! So even when your ship stops in port overseas you can get a cup of joe.
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