from a fleet of retired vessels to a ship that could still be seen sailing
after it was left behind here are some of the most mysterious abandoned ships
number nine temple Hall the temple Hall was added to the Harrisons Clyde limited
fleet of 1954 the ship was renamed the Pantelis in 1969 and was registered in
Greece after being purchased by demetrius p Margar oneis he sold the
vessel a year after and it was RIBA in 1977 and named telamon after the Telamon
maritime company in 1981 the boat was headed to tehsil Aniki Greece from the
Ivory Coast carrying logs but the Telamon began leaking and had to go to
shore in arrecife Lanzarote a reportedly the shipwreck was announced in Spanish
on the news in law provincia a portion of the translation is as follows that
Saturday October 31st 1981 a strong storm lashed the Canary Islands a
freighter called the port to request permission for emergency assistance as
they had suffered a serious leak they were on route to the Greek port of Tesla
neeki in the Aegean Sea the 29 crew members of the Telamon were taken ashore
in given accommodation shortly after the incident the cargo was unloaded and
transferred to the island some time later a company was interested in
refloating the Telamon but the project did not go ahead due to the expense they
withdrew and never again showed an interest this abandoned ship is still in
the same place and apparently broke in half after a powerful storm number 8 MV
new karissa this freighter was made to primarily carry large loads of wood
chips which would be used for the production of paper pulp Green Atlas
shipping a secondary of the Japanese Nippon Yuson Caixa shipping company owns
the vessel the new carissa was all steel it was about 640 feet long and 105 feet
wide and could fit 26 crew members in February 1999 the ship was on its way to
pick up another load after the sailors were informed that the weather
prevent them from entering who's Bay Harbor until the next day so the captain
had the men dropped the anchor almost two nautical miles away from the coast
to try and endure the storm however if the chain they used for the anchor was
too short according to the United States Coast Guard so the ship was moving with
the mighty wind the new Carissa shortly became too close to the shore to bounce
back and wrecked on the beach about 70,000 gallons of oil leaked onto the
beach and in the water luckily none of the crew members were injured the severe
weather continued causing the ship to go further into Shore due to various leaks
and damages new Carissa couldn't sail any longer number seven
mothball fleet although these ships are currently
abandoned they could be brought back to life at any given moment the United
States Navy Reserve fleet also known as the mothball fleet is kept under
maintenance that ensures the vessels can be activated in the case of an emergency
however most of the ships eventually become too old to be worth keeping and
are used as scrap metal or in weapons testing but they have come in handy
during some situations such as the Korean War after World War two hundreds
of vessels were no longer required so many of them were put into storage at
these reserve sites most of these were in the Liberty ships class meaning that
they were mass-produced and used mainly for transporting people to and from the
United States Russia and Europe however most of the boats were deactivated in
the 1970s number 6 SS American star this ocean liner was built in 1940 it was
initially called the SS America but went on to be called several different names
including the USS West Point SS Australis SS Noga SS Alfred AHS and SS
American star it was built to hold a total of 1845 people including the crew
members the SS America is partially known for the two German spies Stiegler
in Ziegler that were working undercover as seamen in the Duke n spiring the ship
was later expanded for use by the Navy to carry troops and could then fit over
7600 people fast forward to the 1980s and silver moon fairies purchased the
vessel during its time with the company the then SS Alfred Oz experienced a
burst pipe that flooded some crew quarters and the engine room it was
going to be scrapped but the merchant that bought it pulled out in August 1993
the boat was named the American star after its tow from Greece began in
December 1993 it got caught up in a thunderstorm in the Atlantic Ocean the
tow lines proceeded to break and to reattach them proved hopeless in January
1994 the crew was rescued via helicopter the ship was abandoned and wrecked in
the Canary Islands just off the coast of where to Ventura within two days the
American star was broken into two pieces by powerful waves as of 2013 the ship
had collapsed to the point that it was no longer visible on Google Maps
number 5 MV e-even Julia this refrigerated cargo ship was constructed
in Northern Ireland in 1942 for the UK Ministry of War Transport originally
named the Empire strength it took its maiden voyage in January 1943 from
Liverpool to Sydney in 1946 the vessel was sold to Frederick Leyland & Company
Limited and was renamed the Saxon star it wasn't until being sold in 1965 to
Hanten and Venus Andros in Greece that the boat was named e-even julia in
october 1968 the vessel was sailing too close to the beach of Causton etched it
ultimately wrecked in a rocky area making rescue operations dangerous but
the crew abandoned the even julia and it became romanian property the exact
reason that the boat ran aground is unknown but there are several hypotheses
number 4 MV joyita this boat was a merchant vessel that was
69 feet long and made of wood it was built as a luxury yacht in 1931 for
Roland West a film director he named it Hoya
meaning little gem in Spanish after his wife jewel Carmen in Act
in 1936 the boat was sold to Milton ibeacon and made several trips to Mexico
and San Francisco from 1939 to 1940 in 1940 before Pearl Harbor the United
States Navy acquired the ship and converted it into a yard patrol craft it
was used as a lookout for Hawaii's Big Island until World War two ended in 1948
the vessel was purchased by the Lewis brothers firm and refrigeration
machinery was added as well as two more engines in 1952 after having gone
through another owner who was sold to dr. Kathryn Lou Amala of the University
of Hawaii she leased it to a British Captain Thomas H Miller who used it for
fishing and trading in October 1955 it was headed for the took allow islands
about 270 miles away from appiah Harbor in Samoa due to an engine clutch failure
the Joya departed with only one working engine there were nine passengers and 16
crew members aboard the vessel and it was scheduled to arrive in the islands
on October 5th however a message from its destination
port noted that the ship was late on October 6th no distress signal from the
hoeata was reported they searched for the boat and crew for six days in an
area of 100,000 square miles but they failed to find anything over a month
later the captain of another ship spotted the heta over six hundred miles
off its course the vessel was partly submerged and flooded and there was no
sign of the crew or passengers the cargo was also gone after inspection they
discovered the Hoyas radio was dialed to the distress Channel number three SS
baychimo the SS baychimo was built in Sweden was 230 feet long and could sail
at about 12 miles per hour it was first launched in 1914 and travelled trade
routes between Sweden and Hamburg until World War one started in August of that
year in 1921 the vessel was purchased by the Hudson's Bay Company which used it
to trade supplies to Inuit settlements for pelts in 1928 the béchamel wrecked
onshore in Camden Bay on the north coast of the Alaskan territory but
it was back on the water a day later in October 1931 after picking up a load of
fur the bass demo got stuck in drift ice the crew had to abandon the ship briefly
and head to Barrow for shelter for a couple of days when they went back to it
the vessel had gotten out of the ice however that same month it got trapped
again since it was more thoroughly caught the second time 22 members of the
crew had to be rescued via aircraft but 15 of them stayed behind with the
intention of waiting out the winter and built a shelter near the ship at the end
of November a strong blizzard blew in and the captain could no longer see the
beige mo a seal hunter spotted the boat later on about 45 miles away so the crew
men found the ship and took as much valuable cargo as they could ultimately
abandoning it however the baisha mode didn't sink it was spotted on several
occasions in the decades that followed and people even went aboard the boat
various times the last sighting was recorded in 1969 38 years after it was
left what happened to the béchamel afterward is unknown number 2 world
discover this cruise ship was built in 1974 it was purchased by BEW a cruises
in Denmark originally and in 1976 it was sold again to adventure cruises which
gave it the name world discover after being traded to various places it ended
up registered to Liberia in 1990 in 1996 it was refurbished under the same name
it was used for cruises to places like the Falkland Islands Chile Argentina and
Antarctica equipped to deal with minor impacts from ice the worldís cover
allowed people to take winter vacations in 2000 the vessel ran into a large rock
or Reformation near the Solomon Islands the captain sent out a distress signal
which the islands capital city received they sent a ferry out to collect the
passengers and everybody was taken to safety the captain then grounded the
ship to prevent it from sinking when an inspection claimed the vessel was a
constructive loss it was abandoned in may the world discover remains in the
same spot to this day number one Carroll a Deering this commercial schooner
meeting a boat with four and half sails on at least two masts was constructed in
Maine in 1919 for commercial use its purpose was to carry merchandise but
just after a year of service the vessel met its end in August 1920 the Carroll a
Deering was ready to set sail from Virginia to Rio de Janeiro hauling coal
there was a 10-man crew plus their captain
William H Merritt however the captain became sick a few days after they left
port and was replaced by captain WB worm L they got their load to Brazil on time
and were ready to return to Virginia in December in January 1921
captain Jacobson a light ship keeper saw the Deering heading back home a crew
member on the Deering called out to Jacobson and said that they had lost
their anchors however he couldn't report the incident due to a faulty radio he
also noted later on that the men aboard the vessel were acting suspiciously near
the front of the deck two days after the Deering was spotted wrecked on Diamond
Shoals the lifeboats were gone but its sails were still in place the Coast
Guard couldn't reach the vessel for four days because of rough waters after they
finally got close they saw that it had indeed been abandoned the crew had
seemingly just disappeared and they had taken the navigational equipment their
personal belongings and the boats anchors even though the FBI looked into
the incident thoroughly they never discovered what happened to the crew
members in the mystery of this ship remains unsolved would you be willing to
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