The Carroll A. Deering was discoverd in shallow water in North Carolina in 1921. The ship had set sail a month prior, en route to deliver coal from Virginia to Rio De Janeiro. The ship reached its destination, but the events that took place after caused great speculation. Reportedly, the captain wasn’t fond of his crew. The first mate made a public threat against the captain’s life, which landed him in jail. He was eventually bailed out, and the men made amends, but it set a negative tone for the trip home.
On the return home, the Carroll A. Deering is said to have made a call to a lightvessel—a ship that acts as a lighthouse—reporting that they had lost the ship's anchors. Unfortunately, the captain of the lightvessel was unable to report it because the ship's radio was broken.
When the ship reappeared several weeks later with the crew nowhere in sight, an official investigation was launched, yet yielded no results.
Let's momentarily flash forward to more contemporary times. It's April 20, 2007, and the Kaz II, aka "The Ghost Yacht," is found drifting near the Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of Australia. The three-man crew (all of which are said to have been knowledgable sailors) is nowhere to be found, and surprisingly, there are no signs of piracy or foul play of any sort.
What's even creepier is that a video camera was found aboard, and was said to have contained footage of the three men sitting around, fishing in choppy water, five days prior to the boat's discovery. Could the crew have succumbed to the ocean's waves? Perhaps we will never truly know.
If there's one thing to be careful of when evacuating a sinking ship, it's to avoid panicking. Take the circumstances of the passengers of The SS Valencia for instance—136 people were killed when the ship encountered bad weather and crashed into a reef. Hysteria broke out aboard the ship when passengers sought a way to flee the sinking ship, which ultimately led to two capsized lifeboats, while another disappeared altogether. Legend has it that one of the lifeboats washed ashore some 27 years later.
Why have there been reports of a ghost ship sailing the English Channel every 50 years since 1798? Perhaps the story of the Lady Lovibond could explain some things.
Legend has it that the ship was deliberately wrecked in the English Channel sometime in 1748 by the ship's first mate, who unsuccessfully made advances on the captain's wife. When the first mate saw no other way out, he did what he had to do.
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