It Occurred to Me While Watching Mutiny on the Bounty

That the exclamation, "Ship ahoy!" just may have been the inspiration for the cookies called Chips Ahoy. 

I never liked Chips Ahoy. I find them utterly resistable. If I'm going to eat a mass-produced cookie, it'll be an Oreo.  

Trailer for the film Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable (before he had his ears pinned back) ~ 1935.