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This ship was found in 1955 in pacific ocean. It was heading towards Tokelau when something happened. The rescue team was already equipped, but the ship was found only after 5 weeks. Joyta was badly damaged, and there was no cargo, no crew, no passengers, no lifeboats on board.
After a detailed study, it turned out that the ship's radio wave was tuned to a distress signal, and several bloody bandages and a doctor's bag were found on board. None of the passengers were found in this way, and the secret of the ship was not revealed.

Octavius

Octavius ​​is considered a legend, whose ghost ship story is one of the most famous. In 1775, the ship Herald came across Octavius ​​while sailing along Greenland.

Herald's team boarded the ship and found the bodies of the passengers and crew frozen in the cold. The ship's captain was found in his cabin, in the middle of filling out a journal that marked the year 1762. Based on the legend, the captain bet that he would return to Great Britain via the Eastern Route in a short time, but the ship got stuck in the ice.

Flying Dutchman

The Flying Dutchman is the most famous ghost ship. The ship was first mentioned in George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Harbor (1770s). Based on history, the Flying Dutchman was a ship from Amsterdam.
The ship's captain was Van der Decken. When the storm started near the cape Good Hope, the ship sailed to the East Indies. Van der Deccan, determined to continue the journey, went mad, then killed one of his assistants and vowed to cross the cape.

Despite his best efforts, the ship sank, and according to legend, Van der Decken and the ghost ship are doomed to roam the seas forever.

Mary Celeste

This is a merchant ship sailing on Atlantic Ocean and abandoned by the team. The ship is in very suitable conditions with sails up and ample supplies of food. But the crew, the captain and the boats of Mary Celeste mysteriously disappeared. There were no signs of a struggle. You can also rule out the version of the pirates, because the things of the team and alcohol remained untouched.
The most likely theory is related to technical problems or a storm that forced the crew to abandon the ship.

Lady Lavibond

The captain of the ship, Simon Peel, recently got married and is going on a cruise to celebrate a happy occasion. Despite the sign that the woman on board unfortunately, he took his wife.

The journey began on February 13, 1748. Unfortunately for the captain, one of his assistants was also in love with his wife and, out of anger and jealousy, took the ship to the shallows. Lady Lavibond and all her passengers sank. According to legend, since the shipwreck, a ghost has been seen every 50 years near Kent.

Ghost ships, or phantom ships that appear on the horizon and quickly disappear, according to sailors, portend trouble (and early gray hair). The same name is given to ships abandoned by the crew under various, often mysterious circumstances.

"Mary Celeste"

The second most popular ghost ship after the Flying Dutchman is, however, unlike it, it really existed. "Amazon" (as the ship was first called) was notorious. The ship changed owners many times, the first captain died during the first voyage, then the ship was thrown aground during a storm, and, finally, an enterprising American bought it. He renamed the "Amazon" to "Mary Celeste", believing that the new name would save the ship from trouble.

In 1872, a ship en route from New York to Genoa with a cargo of alcohol on board was discovered by the ship "Dei Grazia" without a single person on board. All personal belongings of the crew were in their places, in the captain's cabin was his wife's jewelry box and her own sewing machine with unfinished sewing. True, the sextant and one of the boats disappeared, which suggests that the crew left the ship.

"Lady Lovibond"

According to legend, the captain of the ship, Simon Reed, contrary to the belief of the sea, took a woman, his young wife, onto the ship. According to one version, his assistant was secretly in love with the young Mrs. Reid and sent the ship to a sandbank at night. According to another, the members of the team desired the charms of the captain's wife and, after hanging him, raped the woman and drank for three days. As a result, the ship crashed. One way or another, the woman was to blame.

Exactly fifty years after the wreck of the Lady Lovibond, several crews of merchant ships claimed to have seen the Lady at the wreck. Boats were sent there, but the rescuers could not find anyone.

"Octavius"

One of the first ghost ships. The Octavius ​​became such because its crew froze in 1762 (at least the last entry in the logbook is dated this year), and the ship drifted for another 13 years and completed its voyage with the dead on board. The captain was trying to find a shortcut from China to England through the Northwest Passage ( sea ​​route across the Arctic Ocean), but the ship was covered with ice.

Baichimo

The cargo ship was built in 1911 and was transporting skins to northwestern Canada. In 1931, the ship got stuck in the ice during the next voyage. Only a week later the ice broke under the weight of the ship, and the voyage was continued. However, eight days later history repeated itself. The crew went ashore, planning to wait for the thaw. But the next day the ship disappeared. The crew decided that the ship had sunk, but the Coast Guard reported that they had seen the Baichimo 60 kilometers from the coast in the ice. The owner company decided to leave the ship, as it was badly damaged, but it again escaped from the ice captivity and plowed the Bering Strait for another 38 years. In 2006, the Alaska government launched a campaign to capture Baichimo, but the search was unsuccessful.

"Carroll A. Dearing"

An American five-masted cargo schooner was abandoned by the crew under unknown circumstances off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina (USA). The ship was returning from Rio de Janeiro, where it was carrying coal.

On January 9, 1921, the schooner left Barbados, where she made an intermediate stop. After that, a few days later, she was seen in the area Bahamas, then - Cape Canaveral, and on January 31 was found stranded off Cape Hatteral. There was not a single person on the ship. There were no lifeboats either, but food was prepared in the galley. Rescuers also found a gray cat on the deck, which they took with them.

"Urang Medan"

In June 1947, the Silver Star received a distress call from the Dutch ship Ourang Medan in the Gulf of Malacca. Along with the signal, the message “Everyone is dead. Soon it will come for me." Inspired by this life-affirming message, Silver Star went in search. The ship was found, but the entire crew, including ship's dog, was dead. Despite the fact that death came about eight hours ago, the corpses were still warm. There were no signs of violence on the bodies, but the arms of all the dead were stretched forward, as if they were defending themselves.

The ship was decided to be towed to the port, but a fire started on it, and then it exploded. As it turned out later, Ourang Medan was not assigned to any port. According to one version, the cause of the death of the crew and the ship itself was the smuggling of nitroglycerin or nerve gas left over from the Second World War.

"Caesar", according to other data "Octavius"- one of the most famous ghost ships about which, however, almost nothing is known.

Stories about ghost ships one of the most mysterious and creepy stories among sailors. It is believed that a meeting with a ghost ship threatens all sorts of misfortunes for a ship that stumbles upon such a ship. Ghost ships by different reasons empty or with a dead crew, drifting in the oceans are still found.

Ship "Caesar" in 1761 he left England with a course for northern Alaska. Apparently, the captain of the ship was going to take the Northwest route to shorten his path. Northwest Passage (Northwest Passage, English) - a sea route along the Arctic Ocean along the coast North America through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. This path in the XVIII century was notorious among sailors, no one has yet been able to pass it without loss. "Caesar" suffered the same fate as the many ships that disappeared while trying to pass along the Northwest Route. sailboat, for a long time was considered sunken, but on October 12, 1775, 14 years later, on "Caesar" whaling ship stumbled "Herald". Sailors with "Herald" climbing on board "Caesar", saw a terrible picture: all the crew members were dead and represented a floating museum of ice figures. People, caught in the ice, could not escape the cold and froze in the most unnatural poses. The ship's captain was found in his cabin with a pen in his hand over the ship's log. Apparently, until the last moment, he tried to describe everything that happened. The bodies of a woman, presumably the captain's wife, and a child were found in the cabin with him.

Sailors with "Herald" were so horrified that they did not even attempt to examine the ship in detail or take something out of it. The only thing they took with them when they left was the logbook "Caesar".
Unfortunately, the sheets of the ship's log "Caesar" stuck together, and it turned out to be possible to read only the last page on which it was written: "This is God's punishment for our sins...". The entry was dated 1762.
Team "Herald" considered that "Caesar" was cursed and left drifting in the waters Arctic Ocean. After that, no one ever saw him again.

Those who worked as a seafarer know how romantic and… boring it is. How easy it is sometimes to earn an order of magnitude more in the ocean than on land, and how difficult it is sometimes to endure the vagaries of Neptune, from natural storms to unexpected ship arrests in inhospitable ports of the fifth and seventh worlds. Like for weeks on the endless horizon nothing happens and does not change, and then suddenly you meet something that makes your eyes sparkle and your skin tremble. For example, in the middle of the Atlantic, a catamaran is found with no signs of life on board, but with freshly caught fish. Or a buoy that was lost 100 years ago, and has been floating somewhere for some reason since then.

To visit a ghost ship is a pleasure for everyone. No matter how brave Sinbad the sailor was, stepping on the deck of the flying Dutchman, the old sea ​​wolf can easily, excuse me, crap out of fear. In the age of GPS and genetic engineering most people, even shamelessly brave ones, are still .

Most of the "meetings" with ghost ships are fiction, but we can't get away from real meetings either. At the same time, everything is quite understandable and necessarily decorated with sentimental stories and epithets. Without which our unusual world would be too boring.

Losing a ship or a ship in the infinity of the oceans is not so difficult. And it's even easier to lose people.

1. "Carroll A. Dearing"

The five-masted schooner Carroll A. Dearing was built in 1911. The vehicle was named after the shipowner's son. "Deering" carried out cargo flights, the last of which started on December 2, 1920 in the port of Rio de Janeiro. Captain William Merritt and his son, who served as chief mate, had a team of 10 Scandinavians. Merrita's father and son suddenly fell ill, and a captain named W.B. Wormell had to be hired as a replacement.

Leaving Rio, the Deering reached Barbados, where it stopped to replenish provisions. Temporary XO McLennan got drunk and began to vilify Captain Wormell in front of the sailors, provoking a riot. When McLennan yelled that he would soon take the place of captain, he was arrested. But Wormell forgave him and bought him out of jail. Soon the ship set sail and ... in last time he was seen "non-ghostly" on January 28, 1921, when a sailor from a lightship was hailed by a red-haired man standing on the forecastle of a passing schooner. Ginger reported that the Deering had lost anchors. But the lighthouse worker could not contact the emergency service, because. his radio was out of order.

Three days later, Deering was found aground near Cape Hatteras.

When the rescuers arrived, it turned out that the ship was completely empty. No crew, no logbook, no navigation equipment, no lifeboats. In the galley, undercooked naval borscht froze on the stove. Unfortunately, the schooner was blown up out of harm's way with dynamite, and there was nothing more to explore. It is believed that the Deering crew disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle.

2. Baichimo

The Baichimo trading ship was built in 1911 in Sweden for the Germans and is designed to transport the skins of northern animals. After the First World War, the German skin carrier came under British flag and cruised along the polar coasts of Canada and the United States.

The last voyage of Baichimo (with a live crew and a cargo of fur on board) took place in the autumn of 1931. On October 1, off the coast, the ship fell into an ice trap. The crew left the steamer and went to seek shelter from the cold. Not finding people, the sailors built a makeshift hut on the shore, hoping to wait out the cold and continue sailing when the ice thawed.

On November 24, a storm broke out. And when it calmed down, the sailors saw with amazement that the ship had disappeared. At first they thought that the transport with furs sank during a storm, but after a couple of days the walrus hunter told that he had seen Baichimo 45 miles from the camp. The sailors decided to save the precious cargo, and to abandon the steamer would not survive the winter anyway. The team and furs were delivered deep into the mainland by plane, and the ghost ship Baichimo met sea workers here and there in the waters of Alaska repeatedly over the next 40 years. Last fact documented in 1969, when Eskimos saw Baichimo frozen in arctic ice the Beaufort Sea. In 2006, the Alaska government announced an official search for the legendary ghost steamer, but the operation was unsuccessful. Unfortunately or fortunately?

3. Eliza Battle

The Eliza was launched in 1852 in Indiana. It was a luxury river steamer, which was ridden only by the rich and statesmen - with their wives and children. On a cold night in February 1858, cotton bales ignited on the deck of the ship, a wooden steamer caught fire, fanned by a strong frosty wind. The Eliza Battle was on the Tombigbee River. In the smoke and fire, 100 people died, another 26 were missing. The ship sank at a depth of 9 meters and rests at the crash site to this day.

They say that during the spring floods, when full moon at night you can see how the river steamer emerges from the bottom and walks along the river back and forth. Music is playing on board and a fire is burning. The fire is so bright that the name of the ship is easily read - "Eliza Battle".

4. Yacht "Joita"

The Joita was a luxury "unsinkable" yacht owned by Hollywood film director Roland West from 1931 until the war, then converted into a patrol boat and served off the coast of the Hawaiian Islands until 1945.

October 3, 1955 "Joita" sailed to Samoa with 25 souls on board and a not quite serviceable engine. The yacht was expected on the islands of Tokelau, 270 miles from Samoa. The voyage was supposed to last no more than two days, but on the third day the Joita did not arrive at the port. And no one signaled SOS. Planes were sent to search, but the pilots did not find anything either.

5 weeks passed, and on November 10 the yacht was found. She was still swimming, but it was not clear where, with the engine running at half power and a strong roll. 4 tons of cargo disappeared, as well as the crew and passengers. All clocks stopped at 10-25. Despite the fact that the yacht, lined with a crust, was unsinkable, all life rafts and life jackets disappeared from the Joita. The investigation found that the ship's hull was unharmed, but the fate of the crew and cargo remained unclear.

Someone put forward a lovely version. Say, this is the work of the surviving Japanese militarists, who dug in on a lonely island and make pirate attacks.

The Joita was repaired, the engine was replaced, but no one wanted to go out to sea on a ghost ship, and in the mid-1960s, the unsinkable riddle was sawn into pins and needles.

The most famous of the ghostly sea Vehicle- this is the "Flying Dutchman", the eternal evil wanderer, who was promoted in "Pirates caribbean". Before the Hollywood fairy tale, the “Flying Dutchman” met us on the pages of books, in the music of Wagner and the songs of the Rammstein group. It's time to see you face to face. We continue our nightmarish sea voyage and right on our course it is the most ...

5. "VolatileDutchman»

Not everyone knows that the “flying Dutchman” is not the nickname of the ghost ship itself, but of its captain.

"Flying Dutchmen" refers to several different ghost ships from different centuries. One of them is the real owner of the brand. The one with whom trouble happened at the Cape of Good Hope.

The legend says: “The captain of the ship, Hendrik van Der Decken, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on his way to Amsterdam. Rounding the cape was difficult because of the monstrous winds, but Hendrik vowed to do it (yes-yes-yes!), Even if it required to fight the elements until the Day of Judgment. The team also asked to be protected from the storm and turn the ship back. Nightmarish waves pounded the ship, and the brave captain sang obscene songs, drank and smoked some herbs. Realizing that the captain could not be persuaded, part of the team revolted. The captain shot the main rebel and threw his body overboard. Then the heavens opened up, and the captain heard the voice “You are too stubborn a person”, to which he replied: “I never looked for easy ways and did not ask for anything, so dry up before I shot you too!”. And he tried to shoot into the sky, but the gun exploded in his hand.

The voice from heaven continued: “Damn you and sail the oceans forever with the ghostly crew of the dead, bringing death to everyone who sees your ghost ship. In no port can you land and not know peace for a moment. Bile will be your wine, and red-hot iron your meat.”

Among those who subsequently met the "Flying Dutchman" are such experienced and non-superstitious persons as Prince George of Wales and his brother, Prince Albert Victor.

In 1941, on the beach in Cape Town, a crowd of people saw a sailboat that went straight for the rocks, but disappeared into the air at the moment when the crash was supposed to occur.

6. "Young Teaser"

This nimble corsair schooner was built in 1813 with the sole purpose of robbing merchant ships. British Empire that go to the port of Halifax (Nova Scotia). At that time, what we call Canada belonged to the British, who were resented after the 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States.

From Nova Scotia, the fast Teaser brought good trophies. In June 1813, corsairs of the English administration were chasing the schooner, but the Young Teaser managed to escape in a magically thickened fog. A few days later, the schooner was cornered by the 74-gun British battleships La Hog and Orpheus. It was decided to board the Young Teaser. As soon as the five boarding boats approached the ship, the Teaser exploded. Seven Britons survived and told how a corsair in the rank of lieutenant ran to the arsenal of a schooner with a burning piece of wood and looked crazy. Most of the dead privateers found peace in unsigned graves in the Anglican cemetery at Mahone Bay.

Soon, eyewitnesses of strange phenomena began to appear one after another. Allegedly saw "Young Teaser" afloat on fire. next summer curious locals organized a boat cult trip to the place of the death of the schooner in order to see the ghost closer. And a ghost the size of a ship, having allowed itself to be admired, disappeared in clouds of fire and smoke. Since then, tourists from all over the country have been gathering in Mahone Bay every year. And "Young Teaser" explodes in their eyes again and again. The ghost especially likes to appear on foggy nights with a full moon.

It is believed that the ghost ship Octavius ​​was discovered by whalers off the western coast of Greenland in October 1775. On board the Octavius ​​was a dead crew, each of the sailors seemed to have been frozen at the moment of death. The captain paused with a pencil in his hand over a magazine, next to him stood a frozen woman, a boy wrapped in a blanket and a sailor with a keg of gunpowder in his hands.

The terrified whalers grabbed the ghost ship's logbook and found out that the last entry dates back to 1762. That is, "Octavius" has been in a frozen state for 13 years.

In 1761 the ship set sail from England to South Asia. To save time, the captain decided not to go around Africa, but to lay a short but dangerous Arctic route along the northern coast of America. Recall that neither the Suez nor the Panama Canal existed in the project yet. Apparently, the ship was frozen in the ice in the waters of the north and was the first to dare to travel along the northwestern route long before the appearance of icebreakers.

More "Octavius" did not catch anyone's eye.

8. "Lady Lovibond"

In February 1748, Captain Simon Reed took his young wife Annette aboard the Lady Lovibond to honeymoon in Portugal. At the time, the presence of a woman on a ship was considered bad luck.

The captain did not know that his first mate, John Rivers, was head over heels in love with Reed's wife and was going crazy with jealousy. In a fit of rage, Rivers stalked back and forth on the deck, then pulled out a coffee nail and killed the helmsman. The bad first officer took the helm and led the schooner to Goodwin Sands, in the southeast of England, on the banks of Kent. "Lady Lovibond" ran aground, the entire crew and passengers of the schooner died. The verdict of the investigation was "accident".

50 years later, a phantom sailboat was seen sailing along the shallows of the Goodwin Sands from two different ships. In February 1848, local fishermen observed the remains of a shipwreck and even sent out lifeboats, but they returned empty-handed. In 1948, the ghost of "Lady Lovibond" in a green glow caught people's eyes again.

A ghost ship makes itself felt every 50 years. Therefore, if you don't have specific plans for February 13, 2048 yet, you can make a note on the calendar. Goodwin Sands almost ruined more ships than the Bermuda Triangle. Two warships lie at the bottom next to the Lady.

"Mary Celeste" is the most great riddle throughout the history of navigation. To this day, there is debate as to why mysterious disappearance 8 crew members and 2 passengers from the ship.

In November 1872, the brigantine "Maria Celeste" set off with a cargo of alcohol from New York to Genoa under the command of Captain Briggs. Four weeks later, the ship was discovered near Gibraltar by the captain of the Dei Gracia, who was friends with Briggs and was not averse to drinking with him. Approaching the Mary Celeste and boarding the brigantine, Captain Morehouse found the ship abandoned. neither alive nor dead people it wasn't on it. The cargo of alcohol was intact and, apparently, the brigantine did not fall into a strong storm, it was afloat. There were no signs of crime or violence. What could have caused the brave Captain Briggs to evacuate so hastily is unclear.

The ship was transferred to Gibraltar and repaired. After the repair, "Mary Celeste" worked for another 12 years and ran into a reef in the Caribbean Sea.

Versions of the sudden devastation of the brigantine are different, and there are many of them. For example, an explosion of alcohol vapors in the aft hold. Or the collision of the Mary Celeste with a floating island of sand. Or the conspiracy of Captains Briggs and Morehouse. Someone even seriously talked about the intrigues of aliens.

10. Gian Sen

The list of ghost ships is replenished even today.

An Australian patrol aircraft spotted an 80m tanker of unknown origin in the Gulf of Carpentaria in 2006. The name of the ship, "Jian Sen", was blacked out, but quite legible on all the documents that the customs officers managed to find on the empty tanker. There was no evidence that Gian Sen was illegally fishing or transporting illegal immigrants. There was quite a lot of rice.

It is assumed that the ship was towed without a team, but the cable broke. The drift of the ghost ship continued for more than one day, so the engines of the Gian Sen could not be started. The ship was sunk in deep water. Down there, it's beautiful and peaceful. Politicians spoke out that on such tankers, Indonesians illegally deliver migrants to drugs.