Ghost Ships: True Stories of Nautical Nightmares, Hauntings and Disasters, by Richard Winer
Berkley Books, 2000
264 pages, and Bibliography, Photos
(My library copy of this book is missing its photos. Will update when possible.)
Backmatter
*An old steamer with a dark history of madness and suicide among its crew is set ablaze in Vladivostok Harbor to put an end to the possessed ship's evil legacy.
*During World WAr II, rthere are repeated sightings of am American Navy destroyer cruising deep inside Japanese territory-but no American ships are missing or unaccounted for.
*The ghosts of seafaring movie stars Errol Flynn and John Wayne are said to haunt their beloved yachts to this day...
Since man first set sail and lived to write about it, literature has been awash in adventures, misadventures, and mysteries at sea. Bestselling author Richard Winer has pursued his nautical fascination to cvarious ports of call, collecting stories that prove the real mysteries and legends of the ocean are even stranger-and more chilling-than any fictional account. Here, then, are a hundred years' worth of shipboard hauntings, mysteries, and catastrophes passed on from one generation of seafarers to the next-but never fully explained...
Tables of Contents
Introduction
1. The Ship of Doom (Ivan Vassili, Squando)
2. Without a Trace (Fantom, Island QueenRaifuku Maru, Monte San Michele, Esperanza de Larringa, Cabedallo, Ottowa, Hewitt, Florino, Svartskog, Steinsund, Albyan, Yute, Mardel Plata, Lukkos, Mount Rose, Port de Brest, Haleakala, John Tracy, Messicano, Kobenhavn, La Crescenta, Monique, Timaru, Toroa, Rio Loge, Rodedale, Endeavor, Jubilee, Revonoc, Witchcraft, Doc's Order, Delphic Eagle)
3. The Queen's Phantom Guests (Queen Mary)
4. The Jinxed Battleship (Great Eastern, Scharnhost)
5. USS Cyclops
6. No Joy Aboard the Joyita (or the Arakarimoa)
7. The Mail Came Through-But the Crew Didn't (City Belle, Carroll A. Deering)
8. Skeletons at Sea (Grace A. Ghislaine)
9. Floating Caskets (Sky Plover)
10. A Possible Impossibility (Connemara IV)
11. The Great Wave of Death (Marine Sulphur Queen, SS Florida, USS Memphis, Castine)
12. The Ghost Ship (Patrol Vessel 102 - Stewart)
13. The Coast Guard's Encounters with the Bizarre (Smilax, Yamacraw, DiligenceHollyhock)
14. Mona, the Isle of Mystery (pirate treasure)
15. Paradise Unreached (USS Conestoga, USS Nina)
16. The Galloping Ghost of ther Java Coast (USS Houston, Perth)
17. The Devil's Jaw (Edith, SS Cuba, Delphy, USS Young, USS Woodbury, USS Nicholas, USS Farragut, USS Fuller, USS Chauncy, SP Lee, Yankee Blade, Robert Sutton, Golden Horn, SS Harvard, Sea Boy, Suomi)
18. The Ghost and the Lighthouse (Victoria Light, aka Great Isaac's Light)
19. Titanic: A Truth Stranger Than the Truth
20. Another Ghost Ship (Baychimo)
21. Revenge of the Sea (Buskoy, Pels, Ringsel, Brattind, Varglint)
22. Ghosts at Sea (Watertown)
23. The Sinking Ships of the Rising Sun (Kaiyo Maru 5, Shihyo Maru, Bansai Maru 10Kibi Maru I, Iki Maru, Elkton, Kasin Maru, Banyei Maru )
24. The Greatest Sailor of them All (Joshua Slocum and the Spray)
25. Coast Guard to the Rescue
26. Seagoing Celebrities and Their Ghosts (Sirocco, Zaca - Black Witch, Wild Goose)
27. Ghosts on the Mississippi (Iron Mountain, Mississippi Queen)
28. Phantom Vessels (SS Oarang Medan, Holchu, Tricolor)
29. The Phantom of the Forrestal
30. The Death Ships
31. The Southern Oceans (Marlborough)
32. A Typhoon That Almost Changed the History of the United States
33. Death Under the Waves (Dakar - Isreali sub, Minerva, Euydice, U-65)
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