12 Most Mysterious Ghost Ships

all ships are made for sailors or passengers but some of them outlive the passengers and sailors who once walked on their decks we call those ships ghost ships the world's most famous ghost ship was the Marie Celeste which is a famous mystery that endures to this day but it's not the only ship that came to be abandoned or left to sail on alone whether they're at the bottom of the ocean shipwrecked on a beach or still sailing the ocean this video was full of spectacular ghost ships and their amazing stories perhaps the best-known modern era equivalent to the Marie Celeste is the tale of the Carroll a Deering a five masted commercial schooner that was found abandoned in strange circumstances in January 1921 less than two years after it launched some conspiracy theorists believe that the notorious Bermuda Triangle played a role in this maritime mystery although a mutiny or pirate attack might offer a better explanation the Deering was spotted by a passing ship off the coast of North Carolina's Cape Hatteras on the 31st of January that year having seemingly run aground on Diamond Shoals the weather was poor at the time and it didn't calm down enough to allow a rescue effort to be launched until four days later when rescuers finally reached the ship the crew were nowhere to be seen it appeared that the abandonment had been planned and deliberate the vessels log was gone as was all the navigation equipment and many of the crew's personal effects despite an extended search and an investigation ordered and conducted by the US government no trace of the crew was ever found and the enquiry closed in 1922 without drawing any conclusions [Music] the same year the Carroll a Deering ran aground the Danish East Asia attic company launched the koban Haven a five masted bark that was at the time of its creation the world's largest sailing vessel the ship was primarily used as a training vessel for Danish Navy cadets and went about those duties without incident for seven years in December 1928 she set sail from Argentina to Australia and was never seen again ships do sometimes go missing but this 430 foot long 20 storey high vessel is a very large thing to lose we can't blame the doldrums for the loss of the koban Haven if the wind was still it had a diesel motor to power it on December 22nd 1928 eight days after she left Argentina there was an exchange of radio messages between the københavn and Norwegian steamer ship william bloomer in which the cove in haven was said to be 900 miles from tristan da cunha and running well by that night the crew of the bloomer had lost touch with the cove in Haven and no further news of her is known sailors in the area occasionally reported sightings of a huge five masted ship drifting in the South Atlantic for the next two or three years but nothing was ever photographed or proven and the ship and its crew were adjudged to be lost at sea in late 1929 sometimes we can't help but wonder if the people who name ships are asking for trouble our next ship a Brazilian yacht goes by the name of marce M fin translated into English that means endless sea and it very nearly spent eternity in the water the ship sank at Ardley Cove Antarctica in 2012 and then briefly became a photo opportunity for Antarctic tourists because it was possible to see the outline of the vessel below the water sometimes during warmer months part of the vessel partially emerged from below the waves and appeared to float just like a ghost ship the four-person crew aboard the ship had been filming a documentary about the Antarctic at the time of the accident and were safely rescued by a Chilean vessel after radioing for assistance but the marce M fin itself was stuck fast and couldn't be salvaged immediately to make matters worse the water that had flooded the hull later froze and split it it wasn't until over a year later that she was brought back to the surface via a complicated refloating process involving buoys but given the damage that she'd accumulated by that point it was likely that she'd have to be scrapped in October 2014 the Canadian barge in ATL - was on its way to the northern territory of Tuktoyaktuk when it seemed to develop a mind of its own the vessel was being towed to its new location but broke free of its towline and set off alone without a crew on a journey that took it over 1,500 miles along the Alaskan coast line and into the Chukchi Sea for a while that was feared that the cruellest vessel had been lost entirely but then in April 2015 it provoked alarm by sailing unannounced into Russian waters having survived the winter without any human assistance while its owners the Canadian northern transportation company were happy to see their ship again they also had to alert the Russians to the potential that she might be dangerous the barge was full of sulfur diesel when it went missing and if it had developed a leak during its months of solo sailing it might cause an environmental disaster the World Wildlife Fund eventually became involved in the rescue effort and the Russians were able to recover the wandering barge without further incident for all we know our next ship might still be out there on the ocean somewhere with her frozen captain's still in his quarters it's the Octavius a trading vessel that went missing between China and London in 1761 for some reason the captain decided that the best way home would be to sail the Northwest Passage nobody had ever successfully navigated that route before and the captain's confidence that he and his crew could make history by being the first was misplaced the Octavius never arrived in London in fact it never showed up again anywhere until a whaling ship spotted her off the coast of Greenland with ripped sails and boarded it in the belief that there might be a crew aboard in need of rescue they were far too late it was 1775 and a whole fourteen years had passed the bodies of the frozen crew were in their quarters and the frozen captain was sat upright at his desk still with his pen in his hand and the logbook opened on his desk the superstitious rescue crew feared that they'd boarded a cursed ship took the logbook and beat a hasty retreat how the Octavius could have survived 14 years alone on the waves is unknown and she'd never been seen again since when the three-mast sailing barge zabrina was built in whistle bowl england in 1873 she was supposed to spend her life working as a trading ship on River Plate in South America she never made it to such an exotic location and was put to work on domestic waters in Europe instead for many years she was considered a robust and reliable working ship but then in October 1917 she vanished on what should have been a short uneventful trip from Falmouth in England to st. Brio in France laden with a cargo of coal from Swansea two days after she left Cornwall she was spotted at Rosel point just south of the French city of Cherbourg having seemingly run aground there was no sign of any significant damage to the vessel but she'd never radioed for assistance and her crew was missing that's as much as anybody knows the most popular theory is that a German u-boat captured her crew and then itself was sunk by a British warship but if that were the case we would expect to see bullet holes in the Sabrina or for a distress call to have been made with no further evidence to go off the case remains unsolved and the remains of the crew remain undiscovered [Music] if you spoke to the Friends of Manfred Fritz badger OTT the German sailor and adventurer they would tell you that he wouldn't have been afraid of losing his life at sea in the way that he did they were accustomed to spending weeks or even months without hearing from him as he sailed his yacht the CEO around the world but in 2014 he went on one journey too many after over two months without hearing from Manfred a search and rescue operation was launched but no sign of the CEO could be found it wasn't until the following February that the CEO was finally spotted close to Barbeau in the Philippines a team of French sailors boarded in the hope of finding somebody alive but Manfred had passed away at his desk months earlier by that point his body had been mummified a radio transmitter was close to his hand and in front of him was a goodbye letter he'd written to his wife during his final days Manfred was found surrounded by photos of his friends and family which hopefully provided him with a little comfort at the end aside from ripped sails the yacht was undamaged so the circumstances of his passing are difficult to determine a well-made ship can sail the oceans for decades but no ship lasts forever the MV Alta had a long life after launching in 1976 as a cargo vessel but she had to be abandoned after suffering a total power failure sailing between Greece and Haiti in September 2018 the crew was forced to spend 20 days trapped inside the powerless vessel before they were finally located and rescued by the US Coast Guard by which time the Alta had drifted almost all the way to Puerto Rico securing the stricken ship proved to be impossible and so the crew was airlifted to safety and the vessel was written off as being lost at sea the story wasn't quite over yet though somehow without a crew it changed direction and set off back toward Europe where it eventually washed up on the coastline of County Cork in Ireland in February 20 2008 sailed alone across international waters for a year and a half it was remarkably undamaged and it might still be possible to save and repair the merchant vessel until a decision on its ultimate fate is arrived upon though it's still on the rocky Irish coast where it's become a tourist attraction there's so much rumour in speculation about what happened aboard the merchant brig known as the seabird that it's hard to know what's real and what isn't here are some of the solid facts the vessel was commanded by a man named John Hook 'some and until 1750 there was nothing unremarkable about her at all during the summer of that year she was seen approaching Newport Harbor and Rhode Island and seemingly sailing normally it wasn't until she got closer that onlookers realized she was crewless the sea could have wrecked the vessel violently but instead it gently sailed through the breakers and settled on to East and speech which allowed a rescue crew to climb aboard the only living creatures they found there were the ship's cat and dog the crew was missing but no reason for the departure could be identified the kettle above the stove appeared to have been boiled that morning and breakfast was laid out on the galleys tables the Longboat was missing which implies that the crew must have abandoned ship but they must have been inside of land when that happened buxom and his crew were never heard of again and if maritime tales are to be believed the seabird herself broke free of the beach and sailed off on its own the following day disappearing into legend if ships like the seabird are an ancient mystery then the fleet of North Korean ships that's been washing up on the coasts of Japan in recent years is a modern one the ships are often ramshackle wooden constructions housing crews of between four and eight men in cramped conditions with very few exceptions the ships that have washed up so far have all been fishing vessels and they might suggest a substantial depletion in the number of fish in North Korea's waters on occasion when the occupants of the boats have still been alive when they arrived in Japan they explained that they are having to sail further out to sea to catch fish and that their boats are no match for the tides when they go so far out from the shore more often than not though all that's left of the crew by the time Japanese authorities board them are their skeletal remains the first of the Lost ships were recorded in 2013 but their numbers have been steadily increasing in the years since then some people believe that the fishermen are actually civilians attempting to escape North Korea but the pyongyang government unsurprisingly rejects this suggestion in April 1976 a Spanish fishing trawler known as the Eduardo Pond 'el spotted a tiny sailing boat off the south coast of Ireland half submerged in the water it was small enough for them to haul it out of the water onto their deck and when they did they found confirmation that a very ambitious attempt across the Atlantic Ocean had ended in failure identification documents inside its cabin confirmed that the ship was the ocean wave and it's missing lone occupant was Dutch conceptual artists boss John adder the thick coating of the barnacles on the hull of the ocean wave suggested that the boat had been drifting for at least six months and so outer was almost immediately declared lost at sea that was the conclusion of what otter hoped would be a miraculous ocean crossing when he set off from Chatham Massachusetts USA ten months earlier could it really be as simple as a derp losing his way though his camera and notebooks were missing from the cabin despite everything else still being there the artists students were convinced that he'd faked his death in order to begin a new life elsewhere perhaps they were right we're not sure what's more haunting the wreck of the ting mouths electron rotting away in the Cayman Islands were the logs left behind by it's missing captain Donald crow Hearst there's a reason nobody touches this wreck it's widely thought to be cursed Crowhurst a British businessman and amateur sailor built the vessel as part of an ill-advised attempt to take part in a 1969 round-the-world yacht race for which he was unqualified and poorly equipped he had no chance of completing it so instead he turned off his radio and drifted around the Atlantic Ocean making false reports of his position to the races educator and hoping to rejoin the race in last place when his opponents approached his position he never made it that far after spending his time completing a 25 thousand word manifesto on how humankind can achieve dimensional transcendence Crowhurst is thought to have gone overboard in an accident or thrown himself off the boat the erratic nature of his writing suggests that he'd had a psychological breakdown the vessel was recovered and sold to fishermen in Jamaica but ran aground repeatedly and ended up in its current location in 1983 perhaps it's best that it's left alone now [Music] subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and you will be the first to know when a new video comes out thank you for watching and see you soon

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Published: Tue Jul 14 2020