Ghost Ship

A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a ship with no living crew aboard; it may be a ghostly vessel in folklore or fiction, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a real derelict found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste. The term is sometimes used for ships that have been decommissioned but not yet scrapped, such as the Clemenceau (R 98).

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    The ghost of the heart of manred Cain
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    Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death
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    Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

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