Roland Barthes
The French critic and essayist Roland Barthes refers at least twice to a ship that is entirely rebuilt, in the preface to his "Essais Critiques" (1971) and later in his "Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes" (1975); in the latter the persistence of the form of the ship is seen as a key structuralist principle. He calls this ship the "Argo", on which Theseus was said to have sailed with Jason; he may have confused the "Argo" (referred to in passing in Plutarch's "Theseus" at 19.4) with the ship that sailed from Crete ("Theseus", 23.1).