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A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese flags during World War II before it was deliberately ...
A view of the bow of the ship. - Ocean Infinity “It was not until the Stewart was found afloat in Kure, Japan at the end of the war that the mystery of the Pacific ghost ship was finally solved.”
The mysteriously derelict schooner Carroll A. Deering, as seen from the Cape Lookout lightship on 28 January 1921 (US Coast Guard). A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vessel with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly vessel, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a physical derelict found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste.
Built in Philadelphia in September 1919, the ship was completed too late to be used in the First World War – but went on to see action in the Second World War under both American and Japanese flags.
She was found frozen in an ice pack in 1969, 38 years after she was abandoned. This is the last recorded sighting of Baychimo. In 2006, the Alaskan government began work on a project to solve the mystery of "the Ghost Ship of the Arctic" and locate Baychimo, whether still afloat or on the ocean floor. She has not yet been found.
Articles relating to ghost ships, vessels with no living crew aboard; they may be ghostly vessels, such as the Flying Dutchman, or physical derelicts found adrift with their crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste.
The imperial Japanese Navy raised the ship and renamed it Patrol Boat No. 102. Soon, distant sightings of The Stewart led to rumors about an American “ghost ship” operating deep behind enemy ...
The wreck of the ship has never been found, with the exception of an oar and a life preserver, and no bodies were ever recovered. Within a year of her disappearance she acquired a reputation as a ghost ship and became known as "The Flying Dutchman of the Great Lakes". [2] [3] [4] Her fate remains an unsolved mystery.