5 Most Mysterious Ghost Ships in History!

[bookworm_020]

Australia can lay claim to some of the most recent ones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Aim_6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_Seng

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaz_II

[kiwi_2005]

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Few ghost ships provide as many warnings of their curse as the Baychimo, a Swedish cargo steamer which was abandoned due to un-sea-worthiness, and re-boarded several times due to the ship's resilience. Each time the ship was thought to be unsafe, it soon healed itself and tricked passengers to come aboard, only for them to have to flee the ship again.
The Baychimo was initially abandoned in October of 1931 when it became stuck in ice. The crew left the ship but reboarded it when the ship became mobile. A few days later the ship again became stuck in ice and about half the crew were airlifted to safety. Some time after, the Baychimo was spotted with it cargo intact, yet the other half of the crew had mysteriously disappeared.
After this incident, the Baychimo was seen countless time at sea and was frequently boarded by sailors thinking they could tame her. Always, however, they were driven away by bad weather or erratically malfunctioning equipment. The Baychimo was left empty at sea where it floated around for 38 years before being seen in 1969. The ship is likely still drifting on the waves, and is waiting to be discovered again.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

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Strange story,Clearly, driving many boats around the ocean without captain

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

Australia can lay claim to some of the most recent ones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Aim_6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_Seng

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaz_II

[Sailor Steve]

Surprising to find someone who has not heard of Mary Celeste, arguably the most famous of them all. She even figured in a Dr. Who episode back in 1964.

Unfortunately, sensationalism is always a bigger draw than fact, and though the truth about Mary Celeste is still not known, the facts that are known have been distorted to make it look more mysterious than it really is.

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste ?.

The Mary Celeste was launched in 1861 from the Yard of Joshua Dewis, Spencer Island, Nova Scotia as the AMAZON. She was 282grt and measured 103x16.9x16.2ft. In 1868 she came under the US flag as a Brig and renamed MARY CELESTE. She was purchased in 1869 by Captain J H Winchester and Others.

On the 7th November 1872 she sailed from New York bound for Genoa with a cargo of 1,701 barrels of crude alcohol. The Captain B S Briggs was accompanied by his wife and two year old daughter together with a crew of seven. On the 5th December 1872 the Nova Scotian brigantine DEI GRATIA sighted the MARY CELESTE about 590 mile west of Gibraltar. Captain Morehouse of the DEI GRATIA could see the other vessel was in distress and being unable to obtain any response to his hail he approached to within a few hundred yards and saw through his telescope that there was no helmsman and that the deck was unoccupied. He ordered his chief mate with two others to row across and investigate.

The MARY CELESTE was found to be in a perfectly seaworthy condition. Contrary to many subsequent stories her boat had gone and it was clear she had been abandoned in a hurry. The Captains chronometer, sextant, Navigation Books and most of the ship's papers were missing. The log book had been entered up to November 24th and the log slate showed that the last observation had been made at 8am on November 25th. There were no signs of violence and no half-eaten meals on the tables, both fictions which led to extravagant speculation. The fore-hatch had been removed probably to ventilate the cargo hold, a normal precaution with a cargo of crude alcohol.

Later, when the ship was unloaded in Genoa nine barrels were found to be empty having apparently leaked during the voyage. This may explain what happened. Fear of fire or explosion may have caused the captain to abandon the ship temporarily but with the worsening weather he and his companions were swept away and lost. Weather reports of November 25th support this theory.

The Mate and two seamen from the DEI GRATIA sailed the MARY CELESTE into Gibraltar and Captain Morehouse received a salvage reward of £1,700.

On January 3rd 1885 the MARY CELESTE under new ownership was wrecked on Roskell's Reef near Miragoane. Haiti on a clear day and in a calm sea. The reef was marked on charts and clearly visible. None of the crew of 7 were lost.

-from Dictionary of Disasters at Sea, by Charles Hocking

Also, as opposed to what is stated in the article linked in the first post, the ship was not "missing for a month", nor were family wondering what had happened. A trans-Atlantic voyage in a sailing vessel took about a month, and Mary Celeste was pretty much on schedule.

http://www.maryceleste.net/part2.htm

As that very article points out, Valencia was not a "ghost ship" at all - just the victim of a terrible tragedy.

As for the others, including USS Cyclops, yes, they are mysteries, but not one thing about any of them demands a paranormal or even unusual explanation.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Surprising to find someone who has not heard of Mary Celeste, arguably the most famous of them all. She even figured in a Dr. Who episode back in 1964.

Unfortunately, sensationalism is always a bigger draw than fact, and though the truth about Mary Celeste is still not known, the facts that are known have been distorted to make it look more mysterious than it really is.


-from Dictionary of Disasters at Sea, by Charles Hocking

for you

http://www.maryceleste.net/part2.htm


Note:I have heard that she was "found" on a reef in caribbien, it is true or not I don't know!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Vendor

for you

That's the same link in my post.

Note:I have heard that she was "found" on a reef in caribbien, it is true or not I don't know!

"Foundered", not found. It means she was wrecked on a reef in 1885.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That's the same link in my post.


"Foundered", not found. It means she was wrecked on a reef in 1885.

or you're a bit tired in the eyes but I post a new link coming in 90 seconds


Note:Spelling mistakes

[Gerald]

It means she was wrecked on a reef in 1885.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry for my spelling mistakes Sir

http://www.bermuda-attractions.com/bermuda2_000064.htm

http://www.gettysburgghosts.net/maryceleste.htm

http://www.yousaytoo.com/mary-celest...e-solved/84440

[Gerald]

http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-ghost-ships.php

An addition to previous list