Mary Celeste a Ghost Ship... just Cursed...

[5fish]

Here is a true ghost ship... Mary Celeste is a story of a ghost ship but its a story of a cruse ship which killed three captains and one whole crew. She had bad luck until she met her water grave...

Mary Celeste (/səˈlɛst/; often erroneously referred to as Marie Celeste[1]) was an American merchant brigantine discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores Islands on December 4, 1872. The Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia found her in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition under partial sail and with her lifeboat missing. The last entry in her log was dated ten days earlier. She had left New York City for Genoa on November 7 and was still amply provisioned when found. Her cargo of denatured alcohol was intact, and the captain's and crew's personal belongings were undisturbed. None of those who had been on board were ever seen or heard from again.

Video on the story:

Here is a more...

Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste

What really happened aboard the Mary Celeste? More than a century after her crew went missing, a scenario is emerging

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[rittmeister]

 

[5fish]

Here is another ghost ship...

Octavius (ship) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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The Octavius was a legendary 18th century ghost ship. According to the story, the three-masted schooner was found west of Greenland by the whaler Herald on 11 October 1775. Boarded as a derelict, the five-man boarding party found the entire crew of 28 below deck: dead, frozen, and almost perfectly preserved.

Here is more of the tale...

The mystery of the Octavius: An 18th-century ghost ship was discovered with the captain’s body found frozen at his desk, still holding his pen

The story opens in 1761 with the Octavius docked in the port of London to take on a cargo destined for China. This majestic sailing ship left port with a full crew, the skipper, and his wife and son. They arrived safely in China and unloaded their cargo. They headed back to sea once she was loaded with goods destined for British shores, but as the weather was unusually warm, the captain decided to sail home via the Northwest Passage, a voyage that at the time had not been accomplished. This was the last that anyone heard of the vessel, her crew, or her cargo. Octavius was declared lost.

 

[5fish]

Once a German Ghost Ship of the Artic lasted until 1969... @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer

SS Baychimo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The video a good summary of her story...

Here is ...

SS Baychimo: The Unsinkable Ghost Ship

www.amusingplanet.com

Captain Cornwell and the remaining crew flew back to Vancouver and the company wrote off the vessel and the negligible cargo it held as a loss. Shortly thereafter, the Baychimo was spotted about 480 km to the east of where she was last spotted. The following year, she was seen again floating near the shores of Alaska. In the decades that followed, numerous people sighted the Baychimo all around the Arctic peacefully adrift in the frigid waters. Many times she was boarded by explorers or crews of passing ships, but each time she eluded capture. Once, a group of Alaska Natives boarded her and were trapped aboard for 10 days by a freak storm. In 1969, 38 years after she was abandoned, she was found trapped in an ice pack in Beaufort Sea between Point Barrow and Icy Cape, off the northwestern Alaskan coast. That was the last recorded sighting of Baychimo.

 

[diane]

Ghost ships! Yes! Things like this are why sailors are superstitious - even unto this day!

 

[diane]

The Graveyard of the Pacific is a rather under-rated area similar to the much more famed Bermuda Triangle. Many, many shipwrecks and mysterious disappearances (and sometimes appearances!) along the area between Siletz Bay and Vancouver. It is a vortex. One of the most popular shipwrecks is near Lincoln City - the Peter Iredale. It is simply there...and not there. Appears and disappears!

 

[rittmeister]

... and that's just just the known ones in our part of it

 

[diane]

That's a lot of wrecks! Is there any water left in there?

 

[rittmeister]

That's a lot of wrecks! Is there any water left in there?

yep

 

[diane]

We also have the famous ghost ship Brother Jonathan, the steam ship who went down in 1865 with 244 aboard and 50 million in gold. Owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt, no less. Brother Jonathan banged into a rock near Crescent City on her way to Vancouver, wobbled outward and sank two miles off-shore. It is, as far as I can tell, the only ghost ship to make it to the US Supreme Court. Salvage operators eventually found the gold...and the State of California claimed it! Eventually it was settled and California got 20 percent but Brother Jonathan made maritime legal history.

 

[rittmeister]

That's a lot of wrecks! Is there any water left in there?

it's also rather mean to freizeitkapitäne as it's quite shallow

 

[5fish]

The French have their Ghost Ship tales... bloody one...

Duc de Dantzig (1808 ship) - Wikipedia

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Duc de Dantzig (or Duc-de-Dantzick) was a brig launched in 1808 at Nantes that became a privateer. She captured a number of vessels, generally plundering them and then letting them go, or burning them. She disappeared mysteriously in the Caribbean in early 1812, and became the subject of a ghost ship legend.

After the last mention of her, Duc de Dantzig disappeared without a trace. She might have been cruising in the Atlantic or in the Caribbean at the time, and either been sunk in a night encounter against a British frigate, or in a tropical cyclone.[1]

Napoléon Gallois later relayed the legend that an unspecified French frigate had encountered the wreck of Duc de Dantzig drifting at sea, covered with dried blood and the putrefying corpses of her crew, many crucified to the masts or the deck. There were no signs that she had been in a recent battle: no new shot holes, and her sails and rigging were intact. Some blood-stained papers found in the captain's cabin identified her captain as François Aregnaudeau. The crew of the frigate set the brig ablaze

 

[5fish]

Illustration of trapped whalers...


Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean, September 1871, including the George, Gayhead, and Concordia. Scanned from the original Harper's Weekly 1871.


"Abandonment of the Whalers In The Arctic Ocean September 1871." Ships depicted: Monticello, Kohola, Eugenia, Julian, Awashonks Thom Dickason, Minerva, WM. Rotch, Victoria and Mary. Wainwright Inlet is in the background.

 

[5fish]

The Flying Dutchman of the Greta Lakes...

SS Bannockburn The Flying Dutchman of the Great Lakes

Leaving Fort William, Ontario, on November 21, 1902, the Bannockburn carried a crew of 21 people and 85,000 bushels of wheat. It would never return to port.

www.greatlakesboating.com

 

[5fish]

Where is the crew... photos... My mom lived in this part of North Carolina...

The Legend Of The Ghost Ship: Carroll A. Deering

The best mysteries are those that may never be solved. When the Carroll A. Deering was discovered in 1921, its crew vanished and its hull run aground on the treacherous rocks of Diamond Shoals, speculation ran wild.

www.nationalparks.org

Two days later, on the morning of January 31, C.P. Brady of the Cape Hatteras Coast Guard Station spied the schooner aground and helpless on Diamond Shoals, its sails still set and its lifeboats missing. Rough waters kept surf boats from reaching the wreck until February 4, when C.P. Brady's initial suspicion proved correct: The Carroll A. Deering was abandoned.

The crew had vanished like ghosts. Gone with them were personal belongings, key navigational equipment, some papers, and the ship's anchors. Despite an exhaustive investigation by the FBI, no trace of the crew or the ship's logs has ever been uncovered.

To this day, the Carroll A. Deering is one of the most discussed and written-about maritime mysteries of the 20th century, its enduring popularity no doubt fueled by the complete uncertainty as to how the ship arrived at its fate.

 

[5fish]

I found this Ghost ship story or mystery form down under. The Mahogany ship from down under in Australia in the sand dunes at one time. The ship was it Spanish Galleon, Portuguese Galleon or a Chinese junk? Was it in the sand dunes , or on the beach , or off shore in the water? The ship remains disappeared in the 19th century and the story became folklore... Did it even exist at one time?

Here start with wiki:

Mahogany Ship - Wikipedia

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The Mahogany Ship refers to a putative early Australian shipwreck that is believed by some to lie beneath the sand in the Armstrong Bay area, approximately 3 to 6 kilometres (1.9 to 3.7 mi) west of Warrnambool in southwest Victoria, Australia.[1][2] In many modern accounts it is described as a Spanish or Portuguese caravel[3] after the wreck was associated with the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia by Kenneth McIntyre in his 1977 book The Secret Discovery of Australia.[4] The most recent research has questioned this theory and provided other explanations.

Here a more detail telling of the story and town..

An Australian Town's Identity Rests on a Ship That May Not Exist

Did a 16th-century Portuguese vessel run aground here? Doubtful, but why not celebrate it anyhow?

www.atlasobscura.com

Here is another take on the tale Portuguese it is or maybe not... or a retelling of Australia's history?

The Mahogany Ship: An Australian Maritime Mystery

www.amusingplanet.com

 

[5fish]

Here is a painting from the 1830's of the wreak...


Thomas Clark's painting The Mahogany Ship possibly helped fuel the legend.

Here is a video suggest it was an Australian ship beached by escape prisoners...

 

[5fish]

Here are 12 WW2 warships lost at sea that have not been found. yet... are they Ghost ships...

 

[5fish]

For @jgoodguy , An Alabama ghost boat tale...

"The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee"

"The Phantom Steamboat of the Tombigbee"

www.alabamaheritage.com

This we know: The Eliza Battle, the phantom vessel of legend, did exist. According to Rufus Ward, author of The Tombigbee River Steamboats: Rollodores, Dead Heads, and Side-wheelers, the Eliza Battle was a side-wheeler steamboat that weighed 315 tons. She had a reputation for great quality and great size among the steamboats of the Upper Tombigbee trade. The Eliza Battle left her history behind in several records, including the documentation of a lawsuit and the stories of a time the craft caught fire but survived.

 

[5fish]

More details of the Tombigbee Fire... @jgoodguy

Ask Rufus: Ghosts of the Tombigbee

With all the ghost stories around it is surprising that there are not more ghostly tales about the Tombigbee River.

cdispatch.com

With all the ghost stories around it is surprising that there are not more ghostly tales about the Tombigbee River. However, two of the most interesting and horrific tales are about the river.