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Show Fishing Fleet Conducts Funeral for Ghost Ship The Flying Dutchman, encountered usually in the neighborhood of Cape Horn, and prophesying -disaster at that most dreaded ocean corner, is the most famous of ghost ships, but now we hear that another sinister vessel has taken to appearing and disappearing in the South seas. H takes the form of a phantom launch, which haunts the fishing grounds near Chatham islands, a lonely outpost out-post 400 miles southeast of New Zealand. Four years ago the craft was first reported, and soon afterwards a launch in which 11 fishermen were going to a football match foundered, all being drowned. More recentTy a lonely fisherman claimed to have seen It; a few days later he was swept overboard to oblivion by a heavy sea. Perhaps with the idea of exorcising this grim visilant, the whole fishing fleet assembled on the approximate spot, and held a solemn funeral service. The ghostly launch is said to appear in misty weather J and to travel at supernatural speed. |