The abandoned Arctic ghost ship: SS Baychimo

[steve2470]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Baychimo


SS Baychimo, 1931

SS Baychimo was a steel-hulled 1,322 ton cargo steamer built in 1914 in Sweden and owned by the Hudson's Bay Company, used to trade provisions for pelts in Inuit settlements along the Victoria Island coast of the Northwest Territories of Canada. She became a notable ghost ship along the Alaska coast, being abandoned in 1931 and seen numerous times since then until her last sighting in 1969.

[2naSalit]

1. Hmmm...

seems to me there was an article about such a ship over in the North Sea area (?) a few years ago, the "news" being that it was rat infested with inbred rats, from decades of isolation, and that some maritime authorities were trying to decide what to do about it since it was drifting toward land somewhere. Maybe this is another "ghost ship" ?

[Berlin Expat]

2. You're thinking of

the MV Lyubov Orlova.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Lyubov_Orlova

[2naSalit]

3. Thank you!

I was trying to recall the story, I thought the ship had gone adrift for much longer than that. Some of the details sounded different, and they are as one was a freighter and the other a cruise ship. I grew up in the NE maritime region and ship stories like this kind of creep me out a little having grown up with creepy ghost ship stories.