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Ship abandonment can occur for a variety of reasons and cannot be defined in a single way. [1] Most cases are of ships abandoned by owners because of economic hardship or economic issues, [ 1 ] for example because it becomes less expensive than continuing to operate, paying debts, port fees, crew wages, etc.
The mysteriously derelict schooner Carroll A. Deering, as seen from the Cape Lookout lightship on 28 January 1921 (US Coast Guard). A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vessel with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly vessel, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a physical derelict found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste.
The crew abandoned their posts causing G. P. Griffith ' s engines to run out of steam and the paddle wheels to slow and stop. However, the ship's momentum carried it forward until it hit a sandbar in water eight feet (2.4 m) deep less than half a mile from the beach. Flames quickly consumed the ship, burning to death anyone left aboard.
Mary Celeste (/ s ə ˈ l ɛ s t /; often erroneously referred to as Marie Celeste [1]) was a Canadian-built, American-registered merchant brigantine that was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores on December 4, 1872.
The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever.The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [1] [2] [3] and of Dutch maritime power.
Flotsam on a beach at Terschelling, Wadden Sea. In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict are terms for various types of property lost or abandoned at sea. The words have specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences in the law of admiralty and marine salvage. [1]
Articles relating to ghost ships, vessels with no living crew aboard; they may be ghostly vessels, such as the Flying Dutchman, or physical derelicts found adrift with their crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste.
The crew briefly abandoned the ship, traveling over a half-mile of ice to the town of Barrow to take shelter for two days, but the ship had broken free of the ice by the time the crew returned. The ship became mired again on October 8, more thoroughly this time, and on October 15 the Hudson's Bay Company sent aircraft to retrieve 22 of the crew ...