#baychimo

[laurikarauchscat]

My short list of ship (literally here) blorbos

1 - The Gerat Eastern

2 - The Baychimo

[forcekenobi]

today i learned about the SS Baychimo, a trading ship that was abandoned by her crew in 1931 after getting stuck in arctic pack ice. the crew returned months later to try and free her only to find that she was gone. not sunk (locals attested to seeing her float away, unmanned). she was GONE.

sounds spooky right? but in fact this is only the beginning! because the SS Baychimo continued to be spotted intermittently for FORTY YEARS. UNMANNED. this ship was just floating around in the arctic for FORTY YEARS BY HERSELF. she picked herself up and LEFT.

(she regularly became trapped in the ice, and on one of these occasions she ended up providing shelter to a group of Iñupiat people in the middle of a blizzard. a completely abandoned ship offering shelter to strangers. 10 days aboard a ghost ship. what a wild experience that must have been)

she was last spotted in 1969 and has definitely (probably) sunk by now but at least she had a nice holiday first!

[greenbookreclaim]

The best look you are going to get of the SS Baychimo for a while. The SS Baychimo an Arctic ghost ship.

[valencians]

are there any ships that you like?

HMS Erebus and HMS Terror

SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Carroll A. Deering

SS Valencia

SS Baychimo

HMS Eurydice and HMS Atalanta

Mary Celeste

2000 year old Phoenician war vessel, Marsala, Italy

[sliinkys-art]

business is open! Todays stock: Flight 370s plane (partially intact), Baychimo ship, a bomb the US lost in NC, DB cooper's generous donation (bag included and chute), this giant tower i found in alabama, and a giant egg? i think? its like super light though.

[vislokawitch]

People you would like to get to know better - thank you for tagging me @bookshelfdreams 😁

1. Three ships: RMS Olimpic - my forever beloved Old Reliable 😍, RMS Queen Mary (I want to visit her so badly), SS Baychimo (the ultimate ghost ship 👻)

Oh, as for the not ship-ships: Bagginshield (Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield), Michifer (yes, Lucifer and Michael from whatever, including the Bible 😈) and Loustat (Louis Du Pointe Du Lac and Lestat Lioncourt from IWTV AMC)

2. First ever ship: (Pequod. Yes, the one from "Moby Dick". The movie from 1956 did a number on me) Like truly obsessed? SwanQueen (Regina Mills and Emma Swan from OUAT). Could be argued that Anakin/Padme were there first tho

3. Last song: hmm, checking with Spotify... "King of Shadows" by Tungsten

4. Last movie: "Black Swan"

5. Currently reading: "That Hopeful Feeling" by oceantears. It's a Good Omens fic, pretty great but I recommend reading trigger warnings before diving in

6. Currently watching: hmm, I'm not watching any shows at the moment so yt channels have to do. Historic Travels and Oceanliner Designs are my current obsession.

7. Currently consuming: nothing at the moment, only drinking some water because my body feels like dying if I'm not hydrated enough.

8. Currently craving: ugh, for my executive disorder, anxiety, etc to die so I can sort out my life in peace.

I'm tagging @pagan-mushroom @winds-and-whispers @mundaneandmagicalcreature @emeraldinerosefaedragon @pixiedurango @pointless-mushroom and anyone who wants to participate

[iswmperson]

Since I now know you enjoy ships. I just listened to "Disappeared: The Mary Celeste" from the podcast Supernatural with Ashley Flowers. I was curious if you had heard about The Mary Celeste Ship that was found abandoned in 1872 but seemingly fully stocked. Because it's story reminded me a bit of the Baychimo ship, that you mentioned a while back, where their crews vanish but their ships are fully in tact. They are just sailing along as if ghosts or the oceans tectonic plates are pushing them along. It's interesting.

I know about the Mary Celeste, but to be honest, i heard the story too many times and it doesn't really have the same kinda feeling as the Baychimo, mainly because i'm not necessarily a fan of sailing ships. No offense btw

[short-wooloo]

SS Baychimo: The Mysterious Arctic Ghost Ship

[hasufin]

Gonna have a wedding reception on the Baychimo.

Soon as she gets free of the pack ice the wedding is back on

[greenbookreclaim]

SS Baychimo Phantom Ship

Navigated the globe, refused to be left by her crew even when damaged, making a shelter next to the ship. Forced to be abandoned in the arctic. Yet still stayed a float for 35 years? And escaped being trapped in ice several times unmanned. Once providing shelter to Inuits for 10 days from a freak storm? And disappearing yet again! Guys this ship is awesome.

[xxpirs]

MISTERIOS MUNDIALES CAP 2 : BAYCHIMO EL MISTERIO DE UNA TRIPULACION MUER...

[oceanwaterheart]

The Baychimo was a real ship sailing in the Arctic. Now she continues to sail, crew less, and with no desire to change that fact.

[snakesinthesnow]

He almost tears up from the praise, a bright, almost blinding smile appearing on his usually blank expression.

"I'm creating a presentation for fun and stuff, and the topic is about the Baychimo, the ship that was left to sail without a crew for thirty-eight years."

"Have you seen Nikolai?"

- @fedya-the-rat-god

"No? I haven't really been out of the house other than to visit Shibu. I think I heard somewhere that he was staying with another Nikolai to make you realize that you need him, or something.. I've been with Karma all day so I'm not sure."

"Are you okay though?"

[the-wish-box]

KATRINA’S TOP 7 MYSTERIOUS SHIPWRECKS

As an aficionado of the golden era of Trans-Atlantic steamships (1900-1950s) and with an affinity for mysteries of the sea, I present a list of the top 7 mysterious shipwrecks… TITANIC not included.

7) OTAVI and The Wrecks of the “Skeleton Coast” Along the coast of Namibia, a stretch of 976 miles (1579km) of inhospitable coast has been coined “The Skeleton Coast”, due to the cold water of the Atlantic’s Benguela current colliding with dry, warm, air of the Namib Desert and the resulting cold, dense fog which extends out to the sea. The wind and currents combine to produce a force pushing inexorably towards shore which creates favorable conditions for wrecks to occur.

6) HMHS BRITTANNIC Sister ship of the Olympic and Titanic, she never saw service as a passenger liner, though she was reputed to be even more opulent than her sisters. Commissioned as a hospital ship at the outbreak of WWI, she was sunk on 21 November, 1916 off of Kea, Greece in the Agean Sea. Sinking in 55 minutes, out of 1065 passengers and crew, only 30 lost their lives. She is now the largest ocean liner intact on the ocean floor at a depth of 500 feet.

5) OCTAVIUS After her departure from the Orient in 1762, her captain decided to navigate the treacherous and uncharted Northwest Passage. According to lore, the three-masted schooner was found west of Greenland by the whaler Herald on 11 October 1775. Boarded as a derelict, the five-man boarding party found the entire crew of 28 below deck: dead, frozen, and almost perfectly preserved. The captain’s body was supposedly still at the table in his cabin, pen in hand with the captain’s log in front of him. In his cabin there were also the bodies of a woman, a boy covered with a blanket, and a sailor with a tinderbox. The boarding party took only the captain’s log before leaving the vessel, because they were unwilling to search it. The last entry in the log was from 11 November 1762, which meant that the ship had been lost in the Arctic for 13 years. She was the first ship to successfully navigate the Passage, albeit posthumously.

4)BAYCHIMO She worked as a trade ship, trading provisions for pelts in the Inuit communities in Alaska. On 1 October 1931, at the end of a trading run and loaded with a cargo of fur, Baychimo became trapped in pack ice. The crew briefly abandoned the ship, travelling over a half-mile of ice to the town of Barrow to take shelter for two days, but the ship had broken free of the ice by the time the crew returned. The ship became mired again on October 8, more thoroughly this time, and on 15 October the Hudson’s Bay Company sent aircraft to retrieve 22 of the crew; 15 men remained behind. Intending to wait out the winter if necessary, they constructed a wooden shelter some distance away. On 24 November a powerful blizzard struck, and after it abated there was no sign of Baychimo. Her captain decided she must have broken up during the storm and been sunk. Intermittent sightings of her were reported up until 1969.

3) MÉDUSE A French frigate, she was on her way to St. Louis in Senegal when she ran aground on the Arguin Banks off of Mauritania on 2 July, 1816. In a panic and believing she could not be refloated, her passengers and crew abandoned ship, however there was not enough room for her 400 passengers on the lifeboats. A crude raft was constructed for the remaining 146 passengers. Cut adrift, the raft proved to be completely unseaworthy. Without provisions and conditions rapidly deteriorating, the people on the raft resorted to cannibalism. After 13 days at sea, the remaining 15 were rescued by the Argus on 17 July.

2) OURANG MEDAN Whether or not the Ourang Medan even existed is up to speculation. No registry or records of her service exist. According to legend, the Silver Star was cruising the Straits of Malacca in either 1947 or 1948, when she received a distress call “All officers including captain are dead, lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.”This communication was followed by a burst of indecipherable Morse code, then a final, grim message: “I die.” This cryptic proclamation was followed by tomb-like silence. Upon boarding the Ourang Medan, the Silver Star crew were greeted with a horrific sight: all crew and the dog were dead, their faces contorted in fear. An attempt at salvage was made, but the Ourang Medan exploded.

1) JAPANESE MINI-SUB NUMBER 20 Attacked by the USS Ward at 6:37am on 7 December of 1941 a few hours before Pearl Harbor, proving that THE US SHOT FIRST in the Pacific Theater of World War II.