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Ghost Ship full of cannibal rats...
How about a ghost ship full of some “cannibal rats”:
No, an Abandoned Ship Full of Diseased Rats Is Not Floating Towards Britain | Smart News | Smithsonian om nom nom...
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Amazing that a large ship can "disappear" in our modern age. Following your link led to this piece: A list of ghost ships that haunt the oceans | Where is Lyubov Orlova?
A list of ghost ships that haunt the oceans Reports that a 150ft squid-fishing boat ripped from its moorings in the Japanese port of Hachinohe by last year’s tsunami has been spotted drifting, rusty and abandoned, off the west coast of Canada – more than 4,700 miles away – saw news media around the world reach unhesitatingly for the words “Mary Celeste”. In fact, the Flying Dutchman is the original ghost ship, doomed never to make port and sail the seas forever. But despite being celebrated in verse and prose since the 1700s, as well as inspiring a Wagner opera and the Pirates of the Caribbean, she was only ever a legend. The brigantine Mary Celeste really was found abandoned, heading for the Strait of Gibraltar in 1872. She was missing her crew but otherwise intact, carrying six months of supplies and still, remarkably, under sail. The last entry in the ship’s log was written 11 days prior to her discovery. In 1921, the five-masted schooner Carroll A Deering washed up on a beach in North Carolina; six US government departments investigated, but the episode has never conclusively explained. Nor could an inquiry into the fate of the 25 passengers and crew of the merchant vessel Joyita, discovered abandoned in the Pacific in 1955, return any verdict other than that the incident was “inexplicable on the evidence submitted”. More recently, in 2006, the tanker Jian Seng was found off the coast of Queensland, Australia; not only was its crew missing but neither its origin nor its owner could be established. The same year, coastguards investigating the case of the schooner Bel Amica, discovered drifting off the coast of Sardinia, found half-eaten Egyptian meals, French maps of North African seas and a flag of Luxembourg – but not a living soul on board. Even more mysteriously, the Kaz II, a 12m catamaran, was spotted near the Great Barrier Reef in April 2007 with its sails up, its engine running, the radio and GPS working, a meal set to be eaten and life jackets and survival equipment still on board, but no sign of its three-man crew. And four years ago when the Taiwanese fishing boat Tai Ching 21 was found drifting near Kiribati, a search of 21,000 sq miles of the Pacific Ocean found no trace of its captain or 28-strong crew. Jon Henley
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I just thought it was strange that some people would believe that a Ghost Ship full of cannibal rats was en-route to England. Maybe some field mice on a field trip or that strange little character named Fievel but not cannibal rats. They seem to be the stay at home kind of folk...
As far as ghost ships go, the Mary Celeste is just odd. Were they killed by "pirates" or did they leave the ship voluntarily for some reason.
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Fun stuff, I bet some of these stories are just so stave off other salvagers.
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if they were really cannibal rats, wouldn't there be only one left?
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He'd be the size of a bear cub too.
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Looks like she sunk:
Ghost ship Lyubov Orlova 'sinks' in Atlantic Ocean - Mirror Online or did she? BBC - Future - How do you find a ghost ship? 
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Now they will be Zombie canabal rats!
AAGGHHHH!
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Interesting how some speculation regarding rats has turned into "rat infested".
Closer to home, the Mary Celeste was built at Spencer's Island, not too far from where I was born. Best speculation I read was there had been fear of cargo igniting/exploding, all souls took to lifeboat, but the line parted and the ship sailed on without them. After her recovery, she was re-named the Amazon. Best Les
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An interesting article on the Mary Celeste:
Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste | History | Smithsonian Can't remember if it was the tv show In Search of, Vanishings or Unsolved Mysteries that tried to debunk the pirate claim.
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