Show conducts funeral for ghost ship the flying dutchman e encountered usually in the neighborhood of cape horn and prophesying disaster at a t that most dreaded ocean corner Is the most famous of ghost ships but now we hear that another sinister vessel his has taken to appearing and disappearing in the south seas it takes the form of a phantom launch which haunts the fishing grounds near chatham islands a lonely outpost 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 afore recently a lonely fisherman claimed to have seen it a few days later he be was swept overboard to oblivion by a heavy sea perhaps with the idea of exorcising this grim visitant tile the whole fishing fleet assembled on the tit e approximate spot and held a solemn solem n funeral service the ghostly latin launch ell Is said to appear in misty weather and to travel at supernatural speed |