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Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of disappearance. The disappearance of a ship usually implies all hands lost. Without witnesses or survivors, the mystery surrounding the fate of missing ships has inspired many items of nautical lores and the creation of paranormal zones such as the Bermuda Triangle.
The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.
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.
Video footage shows the Ironton sitting upright on the lake bottom, hundreds of feet down — “remarkably preserved” by the cold, fresh water like many other Great Lakes shipwrecks, Gray said ...
A World War II-era steamship that sank along with its captain in a strong storm in 1940 has been found at the bottom of Lake Superior after a 10-year search.
The so-called “ghost ships of Kiptopeke” were previously used to form a breakwater, a structure near coastlines to protect harbors, anchorage or marina basin from waves.
The ship was towed into the nearby port, refitted and put out to sea again under a new owner and crew. No trace of her crew on 29 August 1884 has ever been found. HMS Express in 1874, a Forester-class gunboat similar to HMS Mallard, which found the abandoned Resolven. The mystery of this ship earned it the nickname "The Welsh Mary Celeste". [3] [4]
A steamboat that was abandoned and washed ashore at Dutch Harbor. Farallon United States: 5 January 1910 A passenger steamer, wrecked in the Cook Inlet. [3] Feniks Russia: 1799 Russian-American Company ship Feniks (or Phoenix) lost at sea while sailing for Kodiak Island. Wreckage washed up from Unalaska Island to the Alexander Archipelago.