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A maiden voyage is a ship's first journey. The word "maiden" used to be synonymous with virgin. Given that ships are feminine in Western Culture, and people often use "she" or "her" to refer to their ships, the untested ship is seen to be losing its virginity to the sea on first launch.
Maiden Voyage may also refer to:
- Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock album), released 1965
- "Maiden Voyage" (composition), the album's title track
- Maiden Voyage (Ramsey Lewis album), released 1968
- Maiden Voyage (Alice in Videoland album), released 2003
- Maiden Voyage, a 2004 album by Bounding Main
- Maiden Voyage, a 2010 album by Salyu
- "Maiden Voyage", the seventy-first episode of Code Lyoko
- Maiden Voyage (novel), a novel by Denton Welch
- Maiden voyage, theme song for History channel television series Ice Road Truckers (season 7–11) by Andy Kubiszewski