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According to writer-producer Andrew J. Fenady, when he wrote the screenplay, Charles Bronson was the prototype of the main antagonist Wolf Larsen. Bronson, known as an action film leading man, worked for Fenady prior, acting against type in the television film Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (1991).
The book tells the story of a very old ship described as "a deathtrap of rattling rivets", which is found adrift at sea by salvager John Sands. Sands boards it hoping to claim it for salvage, but finds the first officer, Gideon Patch, still aboard and trying to run the ship on his own.
A phantom cargo ship is found adrift at sea in a storm in the English Channel by a marine salvage team aboard the Sea Witch. She is the steamship Mary Deare, out of Hong Kong. John Sands boards it hoping to claim it for himself and his partner, Mike, but finds former First Officer Gideon Patch alone but still in command.
The Mary D. Hume was a steamer built at Gold Beach, Oregon in 1881, by R. D. Hume, a pioneer and early businessman in that area.Gold Beach was then called Ellensburg. The Hume had a long career, first hauling goods between Oregon and San Francisco, then as a whaler in Alaska, as a service vessel in the Alaskan cannery trade, then as a tugboat.
Now a floating hotel, attraction and event and wedding venue, the cruise liner, which was permanently docked in December 1967, has become an icon in southern California.
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste is a 1935 British mystery film directed by Denison Clift and starring Béla Lugosi, Shirley Grey and Arthur Margetson. [2] It is one of the early films from Hammer Film Productions .
Allies often reported seeing an old US Navy ship in enemy hands, earning it the nickname the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific”. Photo shows sailors watching as the USS Stewart was sunk on May 24 ...
As the 40-foot cabin cruiser lurched for 12 hours on the Pacific on its dead-of-night journey to California from Tijuana, a Mexican migrant named Eberardo tried to keep the panicked passengers ...