Ghost ship
See also: the Ghost ship
The ghost ships are haunted ships which, according to the legends, would continue to sail on the seas once their crew would have disappeared. The term can also refer to a true boat which at summer found floating without any team member on board, or which at summer seen after having run.
Ghost ships in the legends
Most known is that of the Dutch stealing.
Ghost ships in reality
The Marie-Celestial (or Mary-Sellars) is undoubtedly most famous of all truths ghost ships. This ship was found abandoned between the Portugal and the the Azores in 1872, deprived of any crew although it was completely intact.
The MV Joyita was as for him overdraft given up in the Pacific, in 1955.
More recently, in 2006, it is the Jian Seng which was thus found close to the coasts of Australia.
To the chapter of the strange stories, sailors paid to have observed the steamer S Valencia floating close to the coasts of the Vancouver Island, often as an appearance which followed them whereas they sailed in bottom of the coast. Its 5 éme lifeboat was recovered besides drifting, without crew and in a remarkably good state, 27 years after the boat ran.
The Ourang Medan is also often classified among the ghost ships. On his board, its entire crew was found died. While the boat was towed towards the port, it exploded then sank. An explanation could lie in the illicit and highly dangerous content of its cargo.
For its part, the Baychimo, abandoned in the Arctic Ocean, in 1931, and imprisoned in the ices, let believe that it would end up running, but it remained with flood and was seen many times during the 38 years which followed its abandonment, without however never being recovered.
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