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SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. [1] During the Second World War, City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to transport 90 children from Britain to Canada.
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.
Ship Year Possible or Last Known Location SS: Baychimo: 1969: Ghost ship last sighted in 1969 in Beaufort Sea off Alaska. [10] SS: Bannockburn: 1902: Lost on Lake Superior 21 November 1902 SS: Chicora: 1895: Lake freighter that sank on 21 January 1895 in Lake Michigan. [11] SS: D.M. Clemson: 1908: Lake freighter vanished in a violent Lake ...
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 RMS Queen Mary, which in the movie was partly used as the RMS Titanic. Several of the scenes on the exterior decks, as well as those in the ship's wheelhouse, were filmed on board the later British ocean liner from the 1930s, the retired RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. [4]
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 ...
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.
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 ...