Ghost Ships
Description: A ghost ship is a supposedly haunted ship, or one found adrift with its crew either missing or dead, or one which has been decommissioned but not yet scrapped. PANICd.com has put together a collection of ghost ship stories which can be found on this page.
Baychimo
SS Baychimo was a steel-hulled 1,322 ton cargo steamer built in 1914 in Sweden and owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, used to trade provisions for pel...
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db# 581
Bel Amica
The Bel Amica is a ghost ship discovered off the coast of island of Sardinia near Punta Volpe on August 24, 2006. The Italian Coast Guard discovered t...
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db# 589
Carrol A. Deering
Carroll A. Deering was a five-masted commercial schooner that was found run aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in 1921. Its crew was mysteriou...
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db# 579
Eliza Battle
The Eliza Battle was a Tombigbee River steamboat that ran a route between Columbus, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama during the 1850s. She was destroye...
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db# 582
Flaming Ship of Ocracoke
Unfortunately for them, the captain of the ship was a former pirate. While he had had taken the "King's Oath", the treasure he saw was too much for hi...
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db# 596
Great Eastern
SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by J. Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall on the River Tham...
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db# 598
High Aim 6
High Aim 6 left the port of Liuchiu in southern Taiwan on 31 October 2002, and was then found without its crew, drifting in Australian waters, on 8 Ja...
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db# 590
Jian Seng
The Jian Seng was an 80-metre tanker of unknown origin that was spotted drifting 180 km south-west of Weipa, Queensland in the Gulf of Carpentaria by ...
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db# 591
Kaz II
The Kaz II, dubbed "the ghost yacht", is a 9.8-metre catamaran which was found drifting 88 nmi (163 km) off of the northern coast of Australia on 18 A...
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db# 592
Lady Lovibond
The Lady Lovibond (sometimes spelled Luvibond) was a schooner that was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast of south-east England, on 13 F...
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db# 587
Mary Celeste
The Mary Celeste was a British-American merchant brigantine famous for having been discovered on 4 December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean, unmanned and a...
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db# 446
MV Joyita
MV Joyita was a merchant vessel from which 25 passengers and crew mysteriously disappeared in the South Pacific in 1955. It was found adrift in the So...
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db# 583
Octavius
The Octavius was a supposed three-masted schooner, probably legendary and not actual. The story goes that the vessel was found west of Greenland by th...
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db# 586
Ourang Medan
The S.S. Ourang Medan was a Dutch cargo ship, which according to various sources, became a shipwreck in Indonesian waters after its entire crew had di...
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db# 588
Schooner Jenny
The Schooner Jenny was an alleged English schooner that became frozen in an ice-barrier of the Drake Passage in 1823, only to be rediscovered in 1840 ...
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db# 594
The Flying Dutchman
The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever. The myth is likely to have originated...
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db# 584
The Queen Mary
The Queen Mary's story is rich with history, elegance and grandeur. From the time her construction began in 1930 in Clydebank, Scotland, she was desti...
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db# 473
U.S.S. Constellation
USS Constellation, constructed in 1854, is a sloop-of-war and the second United States Navy ship to carry the name.
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db# 601
U.S.S. Hornet
The aircraft carrier Hornet (CV-12) is the eighth ship of the United States Navy to bear the name. Six earlier Hornets date from 1775, but CV-12's gre...
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db# 600
Valencia
The SS Valencia was an iron-hulled passenger steamer built as a minor ocean liner for the Red D Line for service between Venezuela and New York City. ...
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db# 595
Watertown
In December of 1924, an oil tanker named the S.S. Watertown sailed from California toward the Panama Canal in route to New Orleans. While they
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db# 599
Wreck of the Titan
A book written several years before the sinking of the Titanic that has several similarities to the sinking of the mighty ship.
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db# 602
Young Teazer
The Young Teazer was a United States privateer schooner that a member of her crew blew up at Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia during the War of 1812 after a se...
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db# 585
Zebrina
Zebrina was a schooner-rigged, three-masted sailing barge, of 189 tons, built in 1873 at Whitstable, originally intended to trade in the River Plate. ...
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db# 593