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In modern vessels found floating with no crew. In Fiction , ghost ships have often been vessels crewed by some manner of spectral or Non-living beings.


IN REALITY

  • '', an English trading ship returning from China , was found drifting off the coast of Greenland in 1775 . The captain's log showed that the ship had attempted the Northwest Passage , which had never been successfully traversed . The ship and the bodies of her frozen crew apparently completed the passage after drifting among the pack ice for 13 years.


  • '', perhaps the most historically famous derelict, was found abandoned between Portugal (mainland) and Portugal's Azores Archipelago . It was devoid of all crew, but was completely intact. While Arthur Conan Doyle's story " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement " based on this ship added some strange phenomena to the tale (such as that the tea found in the mess hall was still hot), the fact remained that the last log entry was 11 days prior to the discovery of the ship. {Link without Title}


  • '', a five-masted cargo schooner, was found stranded on a beach on Diamond Shoals , North Carolina . The ship's final voyage had been the subject of much debate and controversy (see main article), and was investigated by six Departments of the US government, largely because it was one of dozens of ships that sank or went missing within a relatively short period of time. While paranormal explanations have been advanced, the theories of mutiny or piracy are considered much more likely.


  • '' was abandoned in the Arctic Ocean when it became trapped in pack ice and was thought doomed to sink, but remained afloat and was sighted numerous times over the next 38 years without ever being salvaged.



  • messages from the Dutch freighter Ourang Medan . The ship was found adrift off Indonesia with all of its crew dead. The boarding party found the entire crew "frozen, teeth baring, gaping at the sun." Before the ship could be towed to a home port, the ship exploded and sank. The reason for the deaths are still unexplained today.


  • was discovered abandoned in the Pacific .


  • - was a ghost ship found drifting in Australia n waters with no crew on board. Despite an extensive search, no trace of the crew was ever found.



  • ''" (which is one "L" short of the modern Italian spelling of "Good Friend") was discovered off the coast of Sardinia