30 abandoned ships around the world
The seas and oceans are the real graveyard of human history.
1. Dry cargo ship "Sunrise Orient" (Hong Kong) In early 2014, a 2,500-ton Vietnamese
cement truck banked aboard and was thrown onto the rocks off the coast of Hong Kong.
2. Galleon "Mars" (Baltic Sea) The warship Mars, the flagship of
the Swedish navy, the largest of its time. Although it was wrecked in a fierce naval
battle nearly 500 years ago, in 1564, it is one of the best-preserved shipwrecks in the world.
3. Three ships at the ship graveyard in Doha (Qatar)
The Doha ship graveyard on the Persian Gulf coast is where ships go to die. An amazing sight:
shipwrecks reflecting on the wet surface of a sandy beach.
4. Schooner "Sweepstakes" (Lake Huron) The Sweepstakes, a 36-meter-long Canadian
schooner, was damaged at sea in 1885. Although the vessel managed to reach shallow water, the holes
were too big, and the schooner went under the water, where it still lies at a depth of 6 meters.
5. The ship "Dimitrios" (Lakonikos Gulf, Greece)
The Dimitrios was most likely used to smuggle cigarettes between Turkey and Italy.
As a result, the ship was captured by the port authorities and then set on fire.
6. Abandoned, lonely rusting whaling ships (Gryutvikene, South Georgia)
7. Remains of a tug (Point Reyes, California)
8. Lagoon on the Chuuk Islands (Micronesia) This lagoon was once Japan's main naval
base during World War II. In 1944, the port was attacked by American forces,
as a result 44 Japanese ships and 249 aircraft were sent to the bottom.
9. "Lady Elizabeth" (Whale Bone Cove, Falkland Islands)
The huge iron barque "Lady Elizabeth" weighing 1,155 tons, built in 1879, escaped
from the port during a storm and drifted to where it lies today. Time and destruction practically
did not disturbed it, and therefore the barque serves as an excellent reminder of the past.
10. Frigate 356 (Cayman Islands) Frigate 356 is a Soviet ship during
the Cold War. In the 90s, the ship was sunk. Made of cheap aluminium, the frigate
quickly looked like an old wreck, as if it laid at the bottom for hundreds of years.
11. The vessel "S.S. Thistlegorm "(Red Sea, Egypt) The Thistlegorm is a British bulk carrier,
was sunk by the enemy in 1941. At the time of its death, the ship was carrying ammunition and
equipment to the front in North Africa, all the cargo to this day is still in its hold.
12. Soviet ship left to be ruined after the collapse of the USSR (Murmansk, Russia)
13. Ship "MS World Discoverer" (Roderick Bay, Nggela Island)
The “MS World Discoverer” was a German cruise ship that ran aground during its voyage.
Fortunately, the crew and passengers were saved, and the ship itself
remained only a shadow of its former splendour.
14. Ship "Mediterranean Sky" (Eleusis, Greece) This cruise ship was ruined by the financial
difficulties of its owners. It was simply abandoned in the middle of the bay.
15. Ship "SS America" (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands)
This American liner crashed in 1994 after 54 years of service. They wanted
to turn the ship into a hotel, but during a storm it broke away from the vessel towing it.
16. "Olympia" (Amorgos Island, Greece)
It’s believed that the mysterious Olympia have been hijacked by pirates and then abandoned off
the coast of the island. Now the ship's wreck is a popular tourist destination.
17. BOS 400 (Maori Bay, South Africa) BOS 400 is a real oil barge, or rather,
a floating crane that broke away from a towing vehicle during a powerful storm.
18. Ship "La Famille Express" (Providenciales, Caribbean)
In 2004, in the midst of Hurricane Francis, this freighter crashed into reefs.
19. Vessel "SS Ayrfield" (Homebush Bay, Australia)
Homebush Bay became the final resting place of the British “SS Ayrfield”, a 1,140-tonne
steam ship from World War I. Now a real "floating forest" has grown wildly on it.
20. Vessel "MV RMS Mulheim" (Lands End, Great Britain)
21. Ship "Semiramis" (Andros island, Greece) This passenger ship, which now looks like a
grim ghost ship, ran aground off the Greek coast in 1954.
22. Vessel "Hans Egede" (Cliff, Great Britain)
The “Hans Egede” is a 3-masted ship, built in 1922, after 35 years of service
was wrecked while being towed and left on the shore near the British town of Cliff.
23. Nouadhibou Shipyard (Mauritania, Africa)
The surreal port of Nouadhibou is the largest ship graveyard and the final resting place for
several hundred ships. For years, local corrupt officials turned a blind eye to this illegal dump.
24. Sunken sailboats (Orwell River, Pin Mill, Suffolk, UK)
25. Cruiser "Murmansk" (Surver, Norway) After the collapse of the USSR,
this decommissioned military cruiser (built in 1955) was sold for scrap to India in 1994,
but during its towing in stormy weather it crashed near the Norwegian village of Surver. In 2013,
its remains were disposed due to fear that the ship might contain radioactive substances.
26. A ship abandoned by smugglers (Navayo Bay, Zakynthos Island, Greece)
Right in the middle of the white sands of Navayo Bay, also called "Shipwreck Beach",
lies a smuggler’s ship that ran aground here and was then set on fire to hide the evidence.
27. Vessel "MS Lord Selkirk II" (Selkirk Slough, Manitoba, Canada)
After being decommissioned in 1990, the MS Lord Selkirk II remained abandoned
and forgotten in the dock. The once elegant cruise ship is now an old rusty wreck.
28. Vessel "Giannis D" (Red Sea, Egypt)
“Giannis D” sank in 1983 with a load of timber. Now its skeleton
at the bottom near a coral reef serves as a residence for the local underwater fauna.
29. Russian ship (Red Sea, Egypt) This unidentified ship is believed
by some researchers to be the “Hanka”, a Soviet spy ship that went missing in 1982,
although the Russian government denies this. Exploring the wreckage
of the ship, divers found huge deposits of spy equipment from the Cold War.
30. Vessel "Eduard Bohlen" (Skeleton Coast, Namibia)
The transport ship Eduard Bohlen ran aground in thick fog off the Skeleton Coast in 1909.
This rusty hulk showing the desolation of Namibia's vast coastline.