MV Lyubov Orlova (built as Lyubovy Orlova) was a 1976 Yugoslavia-built ice-strengthened Maria Yermolova-class cruise ship, which was primarily used for Antarctic cruises. After being taken out of service in 2010, she sat in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada for two…
On 27 December 2018 the Namse Bangdzod, a 1,950-ton oil tanker with 11 crew and a captain onboard, set off towards Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta from Sampit, Central Kalimantan. Its arrival was expected the following day. However, on 28…
On April 18, 1976, approximately 150 nautical miles from the southwest coast of Ireland, the crew of a Spanish fishing trawler, the Eduardo Pondal, spotted an object floating in the water. As the crew approached, they saw that it was…
Over twenty years ago, on April 10,1990, four men left on a commercial fishing expedition out of Georgia. Five days later, one of those men was found clinging to life in a makeshift boat made out of a baitbox. The…
The true story of the Baychimo is one of the strangest and most mysterious ghost ship stories. Amazingly the last confirmed sighting of the Baychimo was a report that spotted it drifting the seas 37 years after she was left…
The shocking story of SS Ourang Medan In February, 1948, distress calls were picked up by numerous ships near Indonesia, from the Dutch freighter SS Ourang Medan. The chilling message was, “All officers including captain are dead lying in chartroom…
Blackbeard the Pirate’s Lost Treasure Blackbeard the Pirate aka Edward Teach aka Edward Thatch aka Edward Drummond was a larger-than-life menace that sailed coastal Carolina and is said to have spent some time in and around Topsail Island itself. While…
A NEW Bermuda triangle has opened up in China after 85 freight and passenger ships went missing in a small stretch of water in the last year. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of the large scale freight and passenger vessels…
The official story of the Pamir goes something like this: Pamir, a four-masted barque, was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape…
The true story of Lady Lovibond There is a legendary story of a ghost ship called the Lady Lovibond that appears every 50 years near Kent, England which was reputedly involved in one of the hundreds of marine tragedies associated…
The Legend On 11 July 1881 the log of the British Royal Navy vessel Bacchante sailing off the Cape of Good Hope record, “During the middle watch, the Flying Dutchman crossed our bows. She . . . appeared as a…
AN ABANDONED oil tanker has sparked a major mystery after it washed up on a beach with no sign of any of its crew. The Tamaya 1, a 64-metre long oil tanker registered in Panama, disappeared off the face of…
