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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 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.
Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of disappearance. The disappearance of a ship usually implies all hands lost. Without witnesses or survivors, the mystery surrounding the fate of missing ships has inspired many items of nautical lores and the creation of paranormal zones such as the Bermuda Triangle.
M.G.B. 1087, motor gunboat in The Ship That Died of Shame, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959; Milka – Jingo by Terry Pratchett, 1997 (name parodies the Pinta) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 Pequod – American whaling ship searching for Moby-Dick; Bouton de Rose – French whaler ...
The current Reserve Fleet was opened in 1946 to store and maintains the many surplus ships after World War II. Some ships there were reactivated for Korean War, Vietnam War and 600-ship Navy program. In the 1950s the fleet had over 800 ships, with all fleets having over 2,000 ships stored.
Plunging into the icy waters surrounding Scandinavia, divers Jonas Dahm and Carl Douglas search for vessels claimed by the deep, what they call the “ghost ships” of the Baltic Sea.
The so-called “ghost ships of Kiptopeke” were previously used to form a breakwater, a structure near coastlines to protect harbors, anchorage or marina basin from waves. In the case of these ...
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