A ghost ship is a term used most often in works of fiction, a ship afloat without a crew. The term can also refer to a real vessel that (often as a vision) was seen after it sank, or found at sea without a crew on board. Legends and reports of ghost ships are common throughout the world. In most cases, they are associated with some kind of shipwreck. Usually ghost ships depict exactly the scenes of their wreck, which they can repeat over and over again. This is especially true on nights when there is a storm.

Joyita - M. V. Joyita

This ship was found in 1955 in the Pacific Ocean. It was heading towards Tokelau when something happened. The rescue team was already equipped, but the ship was found only after 5 weeks. Joyta was badly damaged, and there was no cargo, no crew, no passengers, no lifeboats on board.

After a detailed study, it turned out that the ship's radio wave was tuned to a distress signal, and several bloody bandages and a doctor's bag were found on board. None of the passengers were found in this way, and the secret of the ship was not revealed.

Octavius ​​- Octavius

Octavius ​​is considered a legend, whose ghost ship story is one of the most famous. In 1775, the ship Herald came across Octavius ​​while sailing along Greenland.
Herald's team boarded the ship and found the bodies of the passengers and crew frozen in the cold. The ship's captain was found in his cabin, in the middle of filling out a journal that marked the year 1762. Based on the legend, the captain bet that he would return to Great Britain via the Eastern Route in a short time, but the ship got stuck in the ice.

Flying Dutchman - De Vliegende Hollander

The Flying Dutchman is the most famous ghost ship. The ship was first mentioned in George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Harbor (1770s). Based on history, the Flying Dutchman was a ship from Amsterdam.
The ship's captain was Van der Decken. When a storm began near the Cape of Good Hope, the ship sailed for the East Indies. Van der Deccan, determined to continue the journey, went mad, then killed one of his assistants and vowed to cross the cape.
Despite his best efforts, the ship sank, and according to legend, Van der Decken and the ghost ship are doomed to roam the seas forever.

Mary Celeste Mary Celeste

This is a merchant ship sailing the Atlantic Ocean and abandoned by the crew. The ship is in very suitable conditions with sails up and ample supplies of food. But the crew, the captain and the boats of Mary Celeste mysteriously disappeared. There were no signs of a struggle. You can also rule out the version of the pirates, because the things of the team and alcohol remained untouched.
The most likely theory is related to technical problems or a storm that forced the crew to abandon the ship.

Lady Lovibond - Wikiwand Lady Lovibond

The captain of the ship, Simon Peel, recently got married and is going on a cruise to celebrate a happy occasion. Despite the sign that the woman on board unfortunately, he took his wife.
The journey began on February 13, 1748. Unfortunately for the captain, one of his assistants was also in love with his wife and, out of anger and jealousy, took the ship to the shallows. Lady Lavibond and all her passengers sank. According to legend, since the shipwreck, a ghost has been seen every 50 years near Kent.

Baychimo - The Baychimo

This steel cargo steamer was abandoned and drifted on the seas near Alaska for 40 years. The ship was owned by the Hudson Bay Company. It was launched into the water in the 1920s, transporting skins and furs. But in 1931, Beichimo was trapped in the ice near Alaska. After several attempts to break through the ice, the crew abandoned the ship. In a strong storm, the ship escaped from the trap, but was badly damaged, and the company decided to leave it. Surprisingly, Beychimo did not sink, but continued to swim for another 38 years near Alaska. The ship has become something of a local legend. The last time he was seen in 1969, again frozen in the middle of the ice.

Carroll A. Deering

This ship sailed near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in 1921. The ship had just returned from a trading trip from South Africa. It ran aground in the Diamond Shoals, an area that was very shipwrecked. When help arrived, the ship was found to be empty. There was no navigational equipment and a logbook, as well as 2 boats. After careful research, it turned out that several other ships mysteriously disappeared at almost the same time. According to officials, this is either the work of pirates or some terrorist organization.

Ourang Medan

The history of Urang Medan began in 1947, when 2 American ships received a distress call off the coast of Malaysia. The caller introduced himself as a member of the crew of the Urang Medan, a Dutch vessel, and allegedly reported that the captain and the rest of the crew had died or were dying. The speech of the person became more and more illegible, until it disappeared with the words I'm dying. The ships quickly sailed to the rescue. When they arrived, they found that the ship itself was intact, however, the entire crew, including the dog, was dead, their bodies and faces frozen in terrible poses and expressions, and many were pointing their fingers at something invisible to the eye. Before rescuers could sort it out, the ship caught fire. The most popular theory for the death of the crew is that the ship was transporting nitroglycerin without special packaging, and it leaked into the air.

High Aim 6

One of the mysterious "marine" stories of our time is connected with the Taiwanese vessel High Aim 6. The vessel High Aim 6 was discovered off the northwestern coast of Australia in January 2003 without a single soul on board. The ship left the port back in 2002. The holds of High Aim 6 were filled with tuna, which was already starting to spoil. They tried to give different explanations for the disappearance of the team: it could have been captured by pirates, however, the safety of the cargo and the absence of damage on the ship refutes this version; the High Aim 6 team was suspected of transporting illegal immigrants, but after opening the holds, this version was abandoned; the threat of sinking the vessel could hardly exist, since it was in good condition. The main version of the events that took place on the High Aim 6 ship is the version of the crew's mutiny and the captain's murder. In favor of her speak the testimony of the only sailor whom the investigators managed to find and one more circumstance. Two weeks after the discovery of the High Aim 6, a man from the phone of an engineer from the High Aim 6 called the police and told about a riot on the ship and the death of the captain and engineer. According to him, the team went home. There is still no other information about the fate of the ship's crew and its owner. And it's unlikely to show up.

Caleuche - Caleuche

One of the most famous legends of Chile describes the Caleuche as a ghost ship that appears every night near the coast of the island of Chiloe. According to legend, the ship carries the souls of people who died at sea. Those who have seen him say that he is very beautiful and bright and is always accompanied by the sounds of music and the laughter of people. Appearing for a few seconds, he disappears again or goes under the water. It is said that the souls on the ship regain the life they had before.

Iron mountain

It is clear that the ship could get lost and drown in the vast ocean or sea, but how can a ship disappear into a river without a trace? In June 1872, the ship S.S. Iron Mountain followed the Mississippi River from Vicksburg to Pittsburgh. When the ship did not arrive at the appointed time, a tug was sent to it. After several days of searching, the ship was found, and part of the cargo it was carrying appeared on the surface of the water. The ship just disappeared.

Bel Amica - Bel Amica

The schooner in the "classic style" was found off the coast of the island of Sardinia, without a crew on board. This ghost ship was discovered by the Italian Coast Guard in 2006. In the cabins of the sailboat lay French maps of the North African seas, the Luxembourg flag, the remains of Egyptian food and wooden boards with the name "Bel Amica". Italian authorities discovered that the ship had never been registered in any country. As the vessel was mistakenly recognized as antique, it soon aroused public interest, but was soon found to be a modern yacht owned by a man from Luxembourg who probably did not register it for tax evasion purposes.

Schooner Jenny - Jenny

“May 4, 1823. No food for 71 days. I am the only one left alive. “The captain who wrote this message was still sitting in his chair, pen in hand, when this message was found in his journal 17 years later. His body, and the bodies of 6 other people aboard the British schooner Jenny, were preserved in the cold weather of Antarctica, where the ship was frozen in ice and resulted in deaths. The crew of the whaling ship that discovered Jenny after the disaster buried the passengers, including the dog, at sea.

Marlborough - Marlborough

The sailing ship "Marlborough" was built at the shipyard in Glasgow. It was considered quite reliable for ocean voyages. The sailing ship was commanded by Captain Hyde, a knowledgeable and experienced sailor. On the last flight, the Marlboro had 23 crew members and several passengers, including one woman. Leaving New Zealand for England, a sailboat loaded with frozen lamb and wool disappeared in 1890. It was last seen on April 1 in the Pacific Ocean between the entrance to the Strait of Magellan and Cape Horn - in an area that sailors call the "cemetery of ships" for good reason. An investigation by maritime authorities yielded no results. The sailboat was considered missing, a victim of the rocks off Cape Horn. A storm rages in these ominous places 300 days a year, the current helps the wind and waves, dragging the doomed ships here and throwing them on formidable stones ... But after 23 and a half years, in October 1913, near Punta Arenas off the coast of Tierra del Fuego, that is, in almost the same place, the Marlboro appeared - the ship was again under full sail! The sailboat seemed untouched. Everything was in place. Even the crew was where they should be on a sailing ship. One person is at the helm, three are on the deck at the hatch, ten are on watch at their posts and six are in the wardroom. The skeletons were in rags left over from clothing. It seemed that people were struck down by some sudden attack, a mysterious force. The logbook was covered with moss, and the entries in it became illegible. Other papers turned out to be eaten away by insects. The sailors from the ship that met the sailboat in the ocean were perplexed ... First of all, they counted the skeletons: it turned out that there were ten fewer of them than there were people on the Marlboro, according to 23 years ago. Where are the absent? Have they died before? Were they landed on any shore? Were they washed off the deck after death, or blown off their masts by the wind in a moment of tragic "overwhelming confusion"? As always in such cases, a version was put forward about an epidemic, poisoning. The captain of the ship that discovered the Marlboro made an accurate report of everything he saw. Inclement weather did not allow him to take in tow and deliver the ghost ship to the port. However, what was stated in his report was confirmed under oath by everyone who witnessed this meeting. Their testimony is recorded by the British Admiralty. The Marlboro was never seen again. Apparently, he died in one of the stormy days.

The Flying Dutchman - De Vliegende Hollander - is a ghost sailing ship living in legends, which fell under the oath curse of its own captain, which is why the crew has not been able to return home for 300 years, doomed to wander forever among the waves.

Often, sailors see the appearance of the "Flying Dutchman" on the border of the horizon, surrounded by the splendor of a luminous halo - to see a ghost ship is an extremely bad omen.

According to long-established mythology, if the "Flying Dutchman" meets with another ship, then its timeless crew tries to send a message through the sailors to their loved ones, who, of course, are no longer in the world of the living.

Maritime superstitions recognize that meeting with the "Flying Dutchman" is an extremely dangerous omen.

However, today we will not stir up the well-known legends of the sea, now we will look at the fate of other mysteriously disappeared ships. These will not be stories about the “Flying Dutchman”, or “Mary Celeste” (“Mary Celeste”, Mary Celeste, “Mary of Heaven”) - which was found without a single person on board (and even the remains of people) in December 1872, 400 miles away from Gibraltar.

We probably will never know why people left an absolutely serviceable ship. Now this is a classic example of an unknown marine anomaly, showing a prime example of a live ghost ship.

A lot of no less interesting stories were born about the terrible fate of ships that disappeared in the depths of the sea for no apparent reason. After all, the sea is an element leading its own chronicle of history, building sometimes mysterious zigzags of fate.

Lost Ship Stories: Ghost Ships.

Year 1823. The story of the schooner Jenny tells of a lost ship frozen in ice in the Drake Passage in Antarctica. Seventeen years later, the vanished schooner, already overgrown with legends by this time, was found by a whaling ship.

The whaler's crew even found the remains of the captain, preserved and frozen in the captain's chair with a pen in his hand. The ship's log kept the last words of the captain about the chronology of the disaster: “May 4, 1823. No food for 71 days, I'm the only one left alive."

The bodies of the captain and 6 other crew members were buried at sea. Later, the Admiralty told about the death of the ship. King George Island in Antarctica was named after Captain Jenny in the 1960s. This is somewhat strange, but in relation to the ship there are no tales that could tell about its wanderings in the ocean as a ghost.

Year 1909. The Waratah passenger steamer, considered the most powerful ship, on its third voyage between Australia and England made a scheduled stop in Durban, South Africa. Only one passenger disembarked at this port.

Later, he explained his act by the incredibly heavy atmosphere on the ship. He also claimed to have an anomalous vision of “a man with a long sword in strange clothes. The "ghost" held a sword in his hand, and his hand was covered in blood.

Naturally, then no one paid much attention to these words, except that he grinned. Waratah continued on and sailed for Cape Town with 211 passengers and crew on board. The ship was seen twice by other ships in the area, but the ship itself never reached its destination.

A huge disadvantage was that there was no ship's radio on board the Waratah, and a distress call could not be transmitted in the event of a crash. Despite numerous attempts to find the ship (even as recently as 2004), no trace of the ship has ever been found.

At first, experts believed that the cause of the sinking could be the movement of a cargo of lead ore in the hold. But then there would be the wreckage of the ship, or the surviving passengers. But not a single hint of a crash, not a single clue to uncover the mysterious disappearance of the Waratah was found.

The only thing that can be said about this disappearance is the occasional sounding beeps from the fog when it forms on the Cape Town roadstead - while the locators show a clear path.

Year 1928. The five-masted Copenhagen barque was used as a naval training ship, and was the world's largest sailing ship of those years. Its shipping history dates back to 1913. On its last voyage, the barque left Buenos Aires for Melbourne, without any cargo on board.

The ship exchanged a “all is well” signal with another ship 8 days after sailing, but after that there was complete silence, the connection was cut off. Two years after the disappearance, a ghostly five-masted ship was seen in the Pacific Ocean, very similar to the missing ship.

Assuming that the ship might still be afloat, a thorough search for the vessel began. Wreckage has even been found with the inscription ‘Köbenhavn’ on the west coast of Australia. And later, in the South Atlantic, fragments of the alleged diary of a sailor (preserved in a bottle) were discovered.

Judging by the record, the ship collided with a large iceberg and sank. No other wreckage of the ship was found. Although in 1935 a boat with human remains was discovered on the coast of South West Africa, which were buried there.

True, they did not fully figure out whether they were related to the missing ship.
It is said that sometimes off the coast of Australia, in Port Phillip Bay, from a foggy haze, a five-match handsome military man looms ... still working out the last task.

Year 1955. Merchant ship Joyita put to sea on a short 48-hour voyage between Samoa and Tokelau. From the point of departure of Samoa, 16 crew members and 9 passengers left on the ship. The cargo on board was medicine, timber, and food.

Alas, the ship never reached its final destination without giving any distress signal. After an unsuccessful search, they were about to give up on the ship, when suddenly Joyita was spotted five weeks later, more than 600 miles deviated from the intended route.

Rescuers found a strange picture on board the ship: the radio was tuned to the international distress frequency, the ship's engines were working, and among the medical supplies was a mass of bandages soaked in blood. Worse, more than four tons of cargo was missing, there were no people or their remains on the ship.

Given the missing cargo, most likely the ship was attacked by pirates, one version of the incident suggested. Probably the crew decided to abandon the ship, since all the life rafts were missing. For a long time in the ocean, the ship was able to hold out thanks to the design of the vessel, its hull was equipped with a cork.

Joyita was rescued and sold to new owners, but after that she acquired a sinister reputation as a cursed ship: her new owners went bankrupt or died, went to prison. As a result, the ship was abandoned, and later completely dismantled.

Year 1978. The cargo ship MS München left the port of Bremerhaven in Germany on December 7, 1978, bound for Savannah, Georgia. On board was a cargo of steel products, as well as part of a nuclear reactor for Combustion Engineering, Inc.

For Munich, this was the 62nd transatlantic flight, with an experienced crew on board. The weather in those days was not the most favorable, but the ship, according to its characteristics, was considered unsinkable.
On the morning of December 13, a German cruise ship received a radio message from MS München about extremely bad weather conditions and minor damage to the ship. Three hours later, distress calls from Munich were picked up by other ships, reporting significant yaw.

Scattered Morse code signals were recorded in Belgium, Spain, which gave rise to an international search. The search operation lasted until December 20. In the end, several empty lifeboats were found, with signs of serious damage.

The remains of neither the ship nor the people were ever found. One version of the disappearance of the ship suggested that MS München was broken and then sunk by the huge force of the "killer wave".
There are few rumors about the missing ship, but they say: sometimes sailors in these places receive strange radio signals from a ship that does not respond to requests “has gone off course ... dense fog around” ...

The story of the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship that brings misfortune to sailors who meet it on its way, did not arise from scratch. Stumbling into the sea on a half-submerged, abandoned by the crew, but never sunk ship is deadly.

Many believe that ghost ships are something from past centuries. In fact, even today, ships abandoned by the crew are drifting in the oceans, causing a lot of trouble for both cargo ships and passenger liners.

Baichimo Photo: Frame youtube.com

"Baichimo": "Flying Dutchman" in the ice of the Arctic

The merchant ship Baichimo was built in 1911 in Sweden by order of Germany. The ship was intended to transport the skins of game animals. After the First World War, the ship passed under the flag of Great Britain and cruised along the polar coasts of Canada and the United States.

In the autumn of 1931, Baichimo, with a load of fur, fell into an ice trap off the coast of Alaska. In anticipation of a thaw and the release of the ship from captivity, the team went ashore. Then a snowstorm broke out, and the sailors, who returned to the place where they left the Baichimo, found that it was gone. The crew thought the ship had sunk.

However, some time later, information came that the ship was again jammed with ice and was about 45 miles from the team's camp.

They got to Baichimo, but the owners of the ship considered that its damage was so serious that it would inevitably sink. The ship was left in place, but, having freed itself from ice captivity, it set off for free navigation.

Over the next 40 years, information regularly came that the Baichimo continued its endless journey through the ice.

The last such information is dated 1969. In 2006, the Alaskan government launched an operation to search for Baichimo, but it was unsuccessful. Most likely, the ship still sank, but there is no reliable information about this. So it is possible that the northern "Flying Dutchman" will still remind of itself.

"Reuun Maru": the trawler that did not want to die

The Japanese fishing trawler Reuun Maru was assigned to the port of Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture. The usual history of the ship ended on March 11, 2011, when during a powerful tsunami the ship was blown out to sea.

The owners thought the ship had sunk. However, a year later, in March 2012, the trawler was spotted off the coast of British Columbia in Canada. The Reuun Maru was rusty, but it held itself quite confidently on the water.

On April 1, 2012, the ship crossed the US waterfront. The Coast Guard concluded that the trawler posed a potential threat to shipping. Since the Japanese owners showed no interest in its fate, it was decided to destroy the Reuun Maru.

On April 5, a Coast Guard ship shot at the trawler. The Reuun Maru showed great survivability: despite the large amount of damage, the ghost ship went to the bottom only after four hours. The trawler rests at a depth of 305 meters, 240 kilometers from the coast of Alaska.

Kaz-II: the mystery of the Australian catamaran

Yacht Kaz-II. A photo: Frame youtube.com

The Australian catamaran yacht Kaz-II was in the status of a ghost ship for only a few days, but this does not make her story any less interesting.

On April 18, 2007, the yacht was accidentally spotted from a helicopter free-floating in the Great Barrier Reef. Two days later, a maritime patrol boarded the yacht, who found the vessel in perfect working order: the engine was working, there was no damage, untouched food was found on the table and a laptop turned on. But there were no people on board.

On April 15, Kaz-II is known to have departed Airlie Beach for Townsville. On board were 3 people: 56-year-old yacht owner Derek Batten and brothers Peter and James Tunstead, 69 and 63 years respectively. There were no signs of an accident or murder.

The ship was towed to the Port of Townsville for further investigation. It was not possible to find the missing people or establish reliably what exactly happened.

The most likely version is that one of the brothers jumped into the water, trying to free a stuck fishing line, the second brother hurried to help a relative, and the owner of the yacht, trying to turn the catamaran closer to his friends, was hit by a sail into the ocean. As a result, all three drowned, and Kaz-II continued its voyage without people.

High Aim 6: Ship Mutiny

High Aim 6. Photo: Flickr.com / Ben Jensz

On January 8, 2003, the Taiwanese vessel High Aim 6 was discovered off the northwestern coast of Australia.

The fishing vessel departed a Taiwanese port on October 31, 2002 under the flag of Indonesia. The last communication between the owner and the captain took place in December 2002.

By the time High Aim 6 was discovered, it was drifting in calm waters. The ship was not seriously damaged, the crew's belongings remained on board, the holds were full of tuna, which had already begun to deteriorate, but there were no people on board.

The assumption that people could be washed overboard was rejected by meteorologists: in the High Aim 6 navigation area, there were almost ideal weather conditions. The version about the capture of the ship by pirates also did not look convincing, due to the fact that both the cargo and the valuables of the crew members remained intact.

The 14 people on board disappeared without a trace. During the investigation, testimony was obtained from an Indonesian who claimed that a crew mutiny broke out on board High Aim 6, during which the captain and his assistant were killed. After that, the Indonesians who made up the team boarded the boat and left the ship, and then returned home.

However, reliable confirmation of this version was not received.

The double-deck cruise ship, built in 1976 in Yugoslavia by order of the USSR, served faithfully for more than 20 years as part of the Far Eastern Shipping Company.

After that, Lyubov Orlova was sold to a company registered in Malta, seriously rebuilt, and used in Arctic sea cruises.

However, the new owners ultimately failed, and in 2010 the ship was arrested for debts in one of the Canadian ports.

There "Lyubov Orlova" stood for two years, after which the ship was sold for scrap.

The ship was towed for disposal to the Dominican Republic, but a storm broke out, the ropes burst, and the Lyubov Orlova went on a free voyage in neutral waters.

They did not search for the ship, believing that it would soon sink.

The Lyubov Orlova was considered sunken until the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency spotted the ship from a satellite 1,700 kilometers off the coast of Ireland in February 2013.

In January 2014, The Mirror reported that the coastal services of Great Britain and Ireland were put on high alert due to the fact that the former Soviet cruise ship Lyubov Orlova was approaching the territorial waters of these countries from the depths of the Atlantic. The information, however, has not been confirmed.

Experts believe that Lyubov Orlova was supposed to sink back in 2013 due to severe storms. However, there is still no confirmation of the death of the ghost ship.

Most often, ghost ships are found in the North Atlantic. However, it is impossible to name the exact number of wanderers - it varies from year to year. According to statistics, in some years the number of "Dutchmen" who drift in the North Atlantic reached three hundred. A lot of ghost ships drift in sea areas remote from shipping lanes and rarely visited by merchant ships.

At times, the "Flying Dutchmen" remind of themselves. Either their current takes them to coastal shoals, or they are thrown by the wind onto rocks or underwater reefs. It happens that the "Dutch", which do not carry navigation lights at night, become the cause of collisions with oncoming ships, sometimes with serious consequences.

"Flying Dutchman"

That was the name of the ghost ship, controlled by the dead. It is believed that this is either a ship that was supposed to sink, but for some reason did not sink, or a victim of a giant squid or octopus.
To meet the "Flying Dutchman" at sea is considered a bad omen - such a meeting portends death.

"Marlboro"

1913, October - in one of the bays of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, a storm brought the schooner "Marlboro". The assistant captain with several members of the crew boarded and were shocked by a terrible sight: the dead bodies of the crew members, dried up like mummies, were scattered all over the sailboat. The masts of the sailboat were completely intact, and the whole schooner was covered with mold. In the hold it was the same: dead crew members everywhere, dried up like mummies.

An incredible fact was established by the investigation: a three-masted sailing ship left the port of Littleton in early January 1890, it was heading for Scotland, its home port of Glasgow, but for unknown reasons it never arrived at the port.

But what could happen to the crew of the sailboat? Could it be that the calm had deprived him of the sail of the wind and forced him to drift aimlessly until all the supplies of drinking water were exhausted? How could it happen that a sailboat with a dead crew did not crash on reefs in 24 years of drifting?

"Orung Medan"

1947, June (according to other sources - the beginning of February 1948) - British and Dutch listening stations, as well as two American ships in the Malacca Strait, received a distress signal with the following content: “The captain and all officers lie dead in the cockpit and on the bridge. Maybe the whole team is dead." This message was followed by an illegible Morse code and a short phrase: "I'm dying." No further signals were received, but the place of sending the message was determined by triangulation, and one of the American ships mentioned above was immediately sent to it.

When the ship was discovered, they found out that its entire crew was really dead, including even the dog. No visible injuries were found on the bodies of the dead, although it was obvious from the expression on their faces that they were dying in horror and great agony. The ship itself was also not damaged, but members of the rescue team noted an unusual cold in the depths of the hold. Shortly after the start of the inspection, suspicious smoke began to appear from the hold, and the rescuers were forced to hastily return to their ship. Some time after that, the Orung Medan exploded and sank, making further investigation of the incident impossible.

Seabird

On a July morning in 1850, the inhabitants of the village of Eastons Beach on the coast of Rhode Island were surprised to see a sailing ship coming from the sea under full sail to the shore. He stopped in shallow water. People climbing on board found that coffee was boiling on the galley stove, plates were placed on the table in the saloon. But the only living creature on board was a dog trembling with fear, huddled in a corner of one of the cabins. Not a single person was on the ship.

Cargo, navigational instruments, maps, sailing directions and ship's documents, everything was in perfect order. The last entry in the logbook said: "Beamed Brenton Reef" (this reef is located just a few miles from Eastons Beach).
It was known that the Seabird was carrying timber and coffee from the island of Honduras. But even the most thorough investigation conducted by the Americans did not reveal the reasons for the disappearance of its crew from the sailboat.

"Abiy Ess Hart"

1894, September - in the Indian Ocean, a three-masted barque "Ebiy Ess Hart" was seen on board the German steamer "Pikkuben". A distress signal fluttered from its mast. When the German sailors landed on the deck of the sailboat, they saw that all 38 crew members were dead, and the captain went crazy.

Unknown frigate

1908, October - not far from one of the major Mexican ports, a half-flooded frigate was discovered, with a strong roll to the port side. The topmasts of the sailboat's masts were broken, it was impossible to establish the name, the crew was absent. There were no storms or hurricanes in this region of the ocean at that time. The search was unsuccessful, and the reasons for the disappearance of the crew remained a mystery, although many different hypotheses were put forward.

"Cholchu"

1953, February - the sailors of the English ship "Rani", being 200 miles from the Nicobar Islands, discovered a small cargo ship "Kholchu" in the ocean. The ship was damaged, the mast was broken. Although the lifeboats were in place, there was no command. In the holds there was a cargo of rice, in the bunkers - a full supply of fuel and water. Where 5 crew members could have disappeared is still a mystery.

"Kobenhavn"

December 4, 1928 - The Danish sailing training ship Kobenhavn left Buenos Aires to continue its circumnavigation. On board the sailboat was a crew and 80 pupils of the maritime school. A week later, when the Kobenhavn had already traveled about 400 miles, a radiogram was received from the ship. It reported that the voyage was going well and that everything was safe on the ship. The further fate of the sailboat and the people on it remains a mystery. The ship did not arrive at its home port, Copenhagen. They say that later he was repeatedly met in different parts of the Atlantic. The sailboat allegedly went under full sail, but there were no people on it.

"Mary Celeste"

1872 - one of the most famous ghost ships "Mary Celeste" was found abandoned by her crew for no apparent reason. The ship was quite good, strong, without damage, but throughout its existence it often got into unpleasant situations, which is why it was attached to a bad name. The captain with his team of seven people, as well as his wife and daughter, who were also on board at the time of the transportation of the cargo - alcohol, disappeared without a trace. The ship, when discovered, was in good condition with sails up and ample supplies of food. No signs of a struggle were found. You can also exclude the version of the pirates, because the things of the team and alcohol remained untouched.

"Joyta"

To this day, the history of the ship "Joyta" remains a mystery. The ship, thought to be lost, was found in the ocean. The ship was without a crew or passengers. "Joyta" is called the second "Maria Celeste", about which A. Conan Doyle wrote: "The mystery of this ship will never be solved." But if the events that took place on the Mayor's Office Celeste took place in the century before last, then the disappearance of people from the board of the Joyta dates back to the second half of the 20th century.

"Joyta" had excellent seaworthiness. 1955, October 3 - a ship under the command of Captain Miller, an experienced and knowledgeable sailor, left the port of Apia on the island of Upolu (Western Samoa) and headed for the shores of the Tokelau archipelago. It did not arrive at the port of destination.

Searches were organized. Rescue ships, helicopters and planes surveyed the vast ocean area. But all efforts were in vain. The ship and 25 people on board were listed as missing. More than a month passed, and on November 10, Joyta was accidentally discovered 187 miles north of the Fiji Islands. The ship was in a semi-submerged state and had a large roll. There were no people or cargo on it.

Schooner Jenny

“May 4, 1823. No food for 71 days. I am the only one left alive. “The captain who wrote this message was still sitting in his chair, pen in hand, when this message was found in his journal 17 years later. His body, and those of six other people aboard the British schooner Jenny, were well preserved thanks to the cold weather of Antarctica, where the ship was frozen in ice and caused deaths. The crew of the whaling ship that discovered Jenny after the disaster buried the people, including the dog, at sea.

"Angosh"

1971 - under mysterious circumstances, the Portuguese ship Angosh was abandoned by the crew. It happened off the eastern coast of Africa. The Angosh transport, with a gross tonnage of 1,684 registered tons and a carrying capacity of 1,236 tons, left the port of Nacala (Mozambique) on April 23, 1971 for another Mozambican port, Porto Amelia. Three days later, Angosh discovered the Panamanian tanker Esso Port Dickson.

The ship drifted without a crew, 10 miles from the coast. The newly-minted "Flying Dutchman" was taken in tow and brought to the port. After inspection, it turned out that the transport suffered a collision. This was evidenced by the serious injuries he received. The bridge bore obvious signs of a recent fire. The experts found that it could be the result of a small explosion that occurred here. But it was not possible to explain the disappearance of 24 crew members and one passenger of the Angosh.

Submarine

1956 - an unusual ghost ship appeared before the inhabitants of the island of New Georgia (from the archipelago of the Solomon Islands) gathered on the shore. It was a submarine drifting in the ocean. A skeleton, dried by the tropical sun, protruded from the cabin. The team was nowhere to be seen. The wind and waves of the sea wanderer washed ashore. It was determined that it was an American submarine from World War II. However, the fate of the crew remained a mystery.

There have been many cases in history when large and reliable ships disappeared into the seas and oceans without a trace. They simply disappeared without a trace and were never found again. Is it any wonder that a South Korean passenger liner just recently disappeared and no one can find it? Look how many ships have disappeared, even today no one knows where they all went.

Mysterious disappearances. Lost ships. Even today no one knows where they are now.

1. USS Wasp - the missing escort

In fact, there were several ships that were called USS Wasp, but the strangest was the Wasp, which disappeared in 1814. Built in 1813 for the war with England, the Wasp was a fast square-sail sloop with 22 guns and a crew of 170 men. Wasp participated in 13 successful operations. On September 22, 1814, the ship captured the British merchant brig Atalanta. As a rule, the Wasp crew simply burned enemy ships, but Atalanta was deemed too valuable to destroy. As a result, an order was received to escort Atalanta to the allied harbor, and Wasp set off towards the Caribbean Sea. He was never seen again.

2. SS Marine Sulfur Queen - a victim of the Bermuda Triangle

This vessel was a 160m tanker originally used to transport oil during World War II. The ship was later rebuilt to carry molten sulfur. Marine Sulfur Queen was in excellent condition. In February 1963, two days after leaving Texas with a cargo of sulfur, a conventional radio message was received from the ship saying that everything was in order. After that, the ship disappeared. Many assume that it just exploded, while others blame the "magic" of the Bermuda Triangle for the disappearance. The bodies of 39 crew members were not found, although a life jacket was found, and a piece of board with a piece of the inscription "arine SULPH".

3. USS Porpoise - killed in a typhoon

Built in the golden age of sailing, the Porpoise was originally known as the "hermaphrodite brig" because two different types of sail were used on its two masts. She was later converted to a traditional brigantine with square sails on both masts. At first, the ship was used to pursue pirates, and in 1838 it was sent on an exploratory expedition. The team managed to travel around the world and confirm the existence of Antarctica. After exploring a number of islands in the South Pacific, the Porpoise sailed from China in September 1854, after which no one heard from her. It is likely that the crew encountered a typhoon, but there is no evidence of this.

4. FV Andrea Gail - a victim of the "perfect storm"

The Andrea Gai fishing trawler was built in Florida in 1978 and subsequently acquired by a company in Massachusetts. With a crew of six, Andrea Gail sailed successfully for 13 years and disappeared on a voyage to Newfoundland. The Coast Guard launched a search, but could only find the ship's emergency beacon and a few pieces of wreckage. After a week of searching, the ship and its crew were declared missing. Andrea Gail is thought to have been doomed when a high-pressure front crashed into a massive area of ​​low-pressure air, the nascent typhoon merged with the remnants of Hurricane Grace. This rare combination of three separate weather systems eventually became known as the "perfect storm". According to experts, Andrea Gail could collide with waves over 30 meters high.

5. SS Poet - the ship that did not send a distress signal

At first, this ship was called "Omar Bundy" and was used to transport troops during the Second World War. It was later used to transport steel. In 1979, the ship was purchased by the Hawaiian Eugenia Corporation of Hawaii, who named it "Poet". In 1979, a ship left Philadelphia for Port Said with a cargo of 13,500 tons of corn, but never made it to its destination. The last communication with the Poet happened just six hours after leaving the port of Philadelphia, when one of the crew members spoke to his wife. After that, the ship did not reach the scheduled 48-hour communication session, while the ship did not send a distress signal. Eugenia Corporation did not report the loss of the ship for six days, and the Coast Guard did not respond for another 5 days after that. No trace of the ship was ever found.

6. USS Conestoga - the missing minesweeper

USS Conestoga was built in 1917 as a minesweeper. After the end of the First World War, it was converted into a tugboat. In 1921, the ship was transferred to Samoa, where it was to become a floating station. March 25, 1921 the ship set sail, nothing more is known about it.

SourcePhoto 7Witchcraft - the pleasure boat that went missing at Christmas

In December 1967, Miami hotel owner Dan Burak decided to watch the city's Christmas lights from his personal luxury boat, the Witchcraft. Accompanied by his father Patrick Hogan, he went to sea for about 1.5 km. It is known that the boat was in perfect order. At about 9 pm, Burak requested a towing back to the pier by radio, saying that his boat had hit an unknown object. He confirmed his coordinates to the Coast Guard and specified that he would launch a flare. Rescuers got to the scene in 20 minutes, but Witchcraft disappeared. The Coast Guard combed over 3,100 square kilometers of the ocean, but neither Dan Burak, nor Patrick Hogan, nor Witchcraft were ever found.

8. USS Insurgent: the mysterious disappearance of a warship

The US Navy frigate "Insurgent" was captured by the Americans in a battle with the French in 1799. The ship served in the Caribbean, where it won many glorious victories. But on August 8, 1800, the ship sailed out of Virginia Hampton Roads and mysteriously disappeared.

9. SS Awahou: boats did not help

Built in 1912, the 44m Awahou cargo steamer went through many owners before eventually being bought by the Australian Carr Shipping & Trading Company. On September 8, 1952, the ship sailed from Sydney with a crew of 18 and sailed to the private island of Lord Howe. The ship was in good shape when it left Australia, but within 48 hours a fuzzy, "crunchy" radio signal was received from the ship. The speech was almost unintelligible, but it looked like Awahou was caught in bad weather. Although the ship had enough lifeboats for the entire crew, no signs of the wreck or bodies were found.

10. SS Baychimo - arctic ghost ship

Some call it a ghost ship, but the Baychimo was actually a real ship. Built in 1911, the Baychimo was a huge steam cargo ship owned by the Hudson's Bay Company. The ship was mainly used to transport fur from northern Canada. The first nine flights were relatively quiet. But during the last voyage of the ship, in 1931, winter came very early. Completely unprepared for bad weather, the ship was trapped in the ice. Most of the crew were rescued by plane, but the captain and a few Baychimo crew members decided to wait out the bad weather by camping on the ship. A severe snowstorm began, which completely hid the ship from sight. When the storm subsided, Baychimo disappeared. However, over the course of several decades, Baychimo has allegedly been seen drifting aimlessly in Arctic waters.

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