Famous Haunted Ships & Ghost Vessels
Famous Haunted Ships & Ghost Vessels is a structured history dataset with 15 entries. Its fields include Ship, Year, Location. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 15 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Mar 7, 2026
Included fields: Ship, Year, Location, Type, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Year span
- 1845 to 2007
- Across 11 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Ship, Year, and Location across history entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 15 downloadable records
Ship↕ | Year↕ | Location↕ | Type↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Celeste | 1872 | Atlantic Ocean (near Azores) | Brigantine merchant vessel | Found adrift with no crew, cargo intact, personal belongings untouched, half-eaten meal, lifeboat missing — crew never found, greatest maritime mystery |
Flying Dutchman | Legend (1600s+) | Cape of Good Hope, South Africa | Legendary ghost ship | Doomed to sail forever, sighting means doom for the observer, glowing spectral ship, Pirates of the Caribbean, Wagner's opera |
SS Ourang Medan | 1947-48 (disputed) | Strait of Malacca | Dutch freighter | Distress signal: 'All officers dead... I die', rescue ship found entire crew dead with terrified expressions, then it exploded and sank |
HMS Erebus & Terror | 1845-1848 | Arctic (Northwest Passage) | Royal Navy exploration ships | Franklin Expedition — 129 crew vanished seeking Northwest Passage, lead poisoning from canned food, evidence of cannibalism, found in 2014/2016 |
Carroll A. Deering | 1921 | Diamond Shoals, North Carolina | Five-masted commercial schooner | Found aground with sails set, lifeboats missing, food being prepared, crew gone, 'Ghost Ship of the Outer Banks', FBI investigated |
Baychimo | 1931-1969 | Arctic Ocean (Alaska/Canada) | Steel cargo steamer | Abandoned in Arctic ice, drifted unmanned for 38 YEARS, spotted multiple times, never successfully boarded, eventually disappeared forever |
Queen Mary (haunted) | 1936-present | Long Beach, California (now hotel) | Ocean liner / hotel ship | Most haunted ship in America, 49 reported deaths during service, ghost sightings in engine room and pool, overnight ghost tours, now a hotel |
SS Valencia | 1906 | Vancouver Island, British Columbia | Passenger steamship | Wrecked with 136 deaths, survivors reported ghost ship appearing near wreck site for decades, lifeboat found intact 27 years later |
MV Joyita | 1955 | South Pacific (Tokelau to Samoa route) | Merchant vessel | Found drifting with 25 passengers and crew missing, 4 tons of cargo gone, one engine covered with mattresses, blood-stained bandages found |
Caleuche | Legend (Chiloé Island) | Southern Chile | Mythological ghost ship | Chilean/Chiloé mythology, appears as glowing ship with music and laughter, crewed by the drowned dead, sinks beneath waves when approached |
SS Iron Mountain | 1872 | Mississippi River, USA | Steamboat | Vanished on the Mississippi River with 55 passengers, no wreckage ever found on a RIVER, barges it was towing found floating, impossible disappearance |
Andrea Doria | 1956 | Atlantic (off Nantucket) | Italian ocean liner | Collided with MS Stockholm in fog, sank over 11 hours, 46 died, 'Mount Everest of wreck diving', divers have died exploring it |
Octavius | 1775 (legend) | North Atlantic (near Greenland) | Three-masted schooner (possibly legendary) | Found with frozen crew, captain at desk with pen in hand frozen mid-sentence, logbook dated 13 years prior, crew froze in Northwest Passage attempt |
Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay | WWI-era (1917+) | Potomac River, Maryland, USA | 200+ abandoned vessels | Largest ship graveyard in Western Hemisphere, WWI wooden steamships scuttled, now a marine sanctuary, visible from shore, nature reclaimed them |
Kaz II | 2007 | Great Barrier Reef, Australia | Catamaran yacht | Modern-day Mary Celeste — found drifting with engine running, laptop open, table set for meal, 3 crew never found, 'ghost yacht' |
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