GHOST SHIP

Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 9

GHOST SHIP

NAILED INTO TORT AND VANISHED. Tho port of Reykjavik, Iceland, which is at present very much frequented by Faroe fishing cutters, believes that it has been visited by a “ghost ship,” tho story being reminiscent of the old tales of “The Flying Dutchman,” which suddenly appeared and was believed to presago death and disaster for those who saw it. One evening in April a functionary of the port, Kristjan Jonasson, saw an Icelandic trawler enter tho harbor. Sailing alongside was a Faroe fishing cutter with Two boats in tow, in one of which were two men in oilskins. It anchored alongside five other Faroe cutters in the harbor.

The harbor pilot had boarded the trawler, and he, the crew of the trawler, and the crew of the pilot boat all affirm that they saw the cutter, but that no one was to be seen on board. The cutter carried tho letters of identity F.D., but no figures; F.D. means that it ho cutter belonged to Fuglefjord. When the cutter anchored Mr Jonasson telegraphed to the port doctor to go on board to make the usual examination, but when the police boat with the doctor, Mr Jonasson, and an engineer neared the spot where the cutter had been she had vanished.

As barely fifteen mintues elapsed before tho police boat arrived, it was impossible for the cutter to have reached so far as behind the islands lying off the harbor. Reykjavik messages _to Copenhagen say that it has been impossible to find a natural explanation of the occurrence.