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Mystery of ‘Ghost Ship’ Where Entire Crew Died Has Never Been Solved

7 May 2023

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Ghost ships may sound like the stuff of Disney swashbucklers, but there’s one that has been scratching heads for decades after reports of mysterious distress calls came through to boats in Indonesia, reports Lad Bible.

SS Ourang Medan shipwreck

The SS Ourang Medan was believed to be shipwrecked in the 1940s in the Straits of Malacca after the crew supposedly died.

Over the years, many questions have been raised about what really happened – that’s if the ship ever...

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The True Story Behind ‘1923’s Ghost Ship’

13 February 2023

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The Zebrina ran ashore on the coast of France in 1917. Up to this day, no one knows what happened to its crew.
Yet another real ship featured in “Ghost of Zebrina” is the RMS Mauretania.
The Zebrina was a real ghost ship that roamed the Atlantic sometime in the first half of the 20th century, more specifically in the final years of World War I.

The fifth episode of Paramount+’s 1923, “Ghost of Zebrina,” is titled after one of the most fantastical things to...

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How Greek Businesses and Ghost Ships Are Favoring Russia

25 November 2022

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But many more of the oil tankers—79—were Greek-owned.
That seriously undermines the sanctions—and creates risks on the high seas.
They had been loaded with Russian oil by smaller tankers travelling from the Black Sea ports of Novorossiysk, Tuapse, and Taman, Lloyd’s found.
The Greek shipping companies making a quick buck on Russian crude have only a couple of weeks until the EU and U.S. ban on crude comes into effect.

Moscow has been able to avoid sanctions and...

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Huge ‘Ghost’ Cruise Ships Become the New Tourist Attraction

4 September 2020

As the cruise industry has come to a standstill, many cruise ships are being moored outside of ports and harbors around the world.
Ironically, it is now the boats themselves that are becoming the tourist attractions, especially off the south coast of England.
Ex-cruise worker, Paul Derham, said he saw a potential business opportunity in the multiple empty cruise ships moored in the English Channel amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A British man who posted an ad for “ghost ship” tours of the empty...

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