Ghost ship found after 78 years

[rfuerst911sc]

I find stories like this fascinating . This ship has quite the history between the US Navy and the Japanese . The ship was found after 78 years at the bottom of the Pacific. Cools story .

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/exceptional-ww2-ghost-ship-found-144500690.html

[Seahawk]

Neat stuff:

https://autos.yahoo.com/exceptional-ww2-ghost-ship-found-144500690.html;_ylt=AwrFNtHkqf5mpl8V8h8PxQt.;_ylu= Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny

Thanks!

[rwest]

I thought that ghost ships were the ones that were still floating around the ocean?

Although in this day and age, we would probably have spotted any on satellite, spacecraft or airplane.

[afterburn 549]

There used to be a real ghost ship in Puget Sound, a big wooden boat of sorts.'Once in a while people would see it pass by a few feet under, in its neutral state of buoyancy. Sort of like a submarine .
Hence a Ghost ship.
That would be eerie!

[varmint]

Look up the Baychimo.

I’m trying to remember the name of a book I read as a child. WW2 American destroyer is hit and is going down, probably the Solomons campaign. All but two of the crew make it off. But the ship doesn’t sink. It drifts for weeks and it becomes sort of an engineering survival horror story as the two try to keep it afloat while avoiding Japanese patrols.

Any ideas?

[WPOZZZ]

Jeebus, look at the size of that crab!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by varmint

I’m trying to remember the name of a book I read as a child. WW2 American destroyer is hit and is going down, probably the Solomons campaign. All but two of the crew make it off. But the ship doesn’t sink. It drifts for weeks and it becomes sort of an engineering survival horror story as the two try to keep it afloat while avoiding Japanese patrols.

Any ideas?

If you remember, please let me know - that sounds fascinating.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by varmint

Look up the Baychimo.

That is pretty cool. Again, no idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Baychimo

On October 1, 1931, at the end of a trading run and loaded with a cargo of fur, Baychimo became trapped in pack ice. 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. 15 crew remained behind, intending to wait out the winter if necessary, and constructed a wooden shelter some distance away. On November 24, a powerful blizzard struck, and after it abated there was no sign of Baychimo; the skipper concluded that she must have broken up and sunk in the storm. A few days later, however, an Inuit seal hunter informed them that he had seen Baychimo about 45 mi (72 km) away from their position. The 15 men proceeded to track the ship down and, deciding that the ship was unlikely to survive the winter, retrieved the most valuable furs from the hold[2] to transport by air. Baychimo was then abandoned.
Ghost ship

The Baychimo did not sink, and over the next several decades there were numerous sightings of the ship. People managed to board her several times, but each time they were either unequipped to salvage the ship or driven away by bad weather. The last recorded sighting of the Baychimo was by a group of Inuit in 1969, 38 years after she was abandoned. She was stuck fast in the pack ice of the Beaufort Sea between Point Barrow and Icy Cape in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern Alaskan coast.[citation needed] Baychimo's ultimate fate is unknown and she is presumed sunk.[citation needed]

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by rwest

I thought that ghost ships were the ones that were still floating around the ocean?

Me too.
A ship at the bottom of the ocean is a sunken ship. It may be a special sunken ship, but it's still a sunken ship.

[afterburn 549]

When one sees a 50-footer passing by silently under your boat, it is in fact a bit ghostly, and some other words.