The Legendary Ghost Ship Of All Time - Mary Celeste Documentary - World Documentaries

A ghost ship, also referred to as a phantom ship, is a ship without living workers aboard; it could be a macabre vessel in folklore or fiction, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a genuine run-down found adrift with its staff missing out on or dead, like the Mary Celeste. The term is in some cases utilized for ships that have actually been deactivated yet not yet junked.
1775: The Octavius, an English trading ship returning from China, was supposedly found drifting off the coastline of Greenland. The captain's log revealed that the ship had tried the Northwest Passage, which had never been successfully gone across. The ship and the bodies of her frozen staff obviously completed the passage after drifting amongst the pack ice for 13 years. 1840: The schooner Jenny was apparently discovered after investing 17 years iced up in an ice-barrier of the Drake Passage. Found by Captain Brighton of the whaler Hope, it had actually been locked in the ice since 1823, the last port of call having actually been Lima, Peru. The bodies of the 7 individuals aboard, consisting of one lady and a pet dog, protected by the Antarctic cold, were hidden at sea by the team of the Hope, and Brighton passed the account on the Admiralty in London. The Jenny is honored by the Jenny Buttress, a function on King George Island near Melville Peak, named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960. 27 October 1913, the Singapore paper The Straits Times released a story according to which the Marlborough had been discovered near Cape Horn with the skeletal systems of her crew on board. The ship that viewed the Marlborough in 1913 was said to be the cruising ship Johnson. 1947: The Ourang Medan is said to have actually been found adrift off Indonesia with every one of its workers dead. The boarding event found the whole staff "frozen, teeth exposing, open at the sun." Before the ship can be lugged to a house port, it exploded and sank.