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Mysterious abandoned ghost ship washes ashore in West Africa
9news.com.au ^

Posted on 05/09/2016 4:31:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Discovered on May 4 on a beach in Robertsport, in the country’s far north-west, the 63-metre tanker, Tamaya 1, was last seen on April 22 after leaving its registered port in Panama.

With the vessel’s last known location far outside pirate waters, authorities are struggling to determine why the crew would have abandoned the ship.

The Liberian maritime authority could only speculate as to why the ship was empty, however evidence of a fire in the captain's quarters supported the theory of foul play.

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The Liberian government has been criticised for taking more than two days to realise the massive ship had run aground on the Robertsport beach

By the time authorities established a perimeter the vessel had been looted and vandalised by locals.

(Excerpt) Read more at 9news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: maritime; shipwreck
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To: Vaquero

haha


21 posted on 05/09/2016 4:59:05 PM PDT by odds
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To: IronJack

Yup


22 posted on 05/09/2016 5:02:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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23 posted on 05/09/2016 5:04:16 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: odds
The Crystal Ship
24 posted on 05/09/2016 5:06:56 PM PDT by kitchen (If you are a luthier please ping me.)
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To: IronJack

My first thought.


25 posted on 05/09/2016 5:07:43 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BenLurkin

Smart comment found at link. Ships like this are loaded with toxic wastes, potentially radioactive and scuttled in the Mediterranean Sea.


26 posted on 05/09/2016 5:14:02 PM PDT by Broker (never submit)
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To: Broker

At the plant we called that “midnight dropoff”


27 posted on 05/09/2016 5:14:55 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: going hot

Jim Morrison, the Bing Crosby of the hippie generation

CC.


28 posted on 05/09/2016 5:16:29 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: kitchen

I like that song; don’t belong to JM’s generation, tho they don’t make songs like that anymore.

Instead new ghosts like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I


29 posted on 05/09/2016 5:17:18 PM PDT by odds
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To: Vic S

“I wonder what was on that ship”

An insurance policy


30 posted on 05/09/2016 5:17:28 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: BenLurkin

I call dibs.


31 posted on 05/09/2016 5:20:06 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Vic S

The ship looks like it have been pounded over time but doesn’t look like a rust bucket....


32 posted on 05/09/2016 5:20:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: BenLurkin

It war the devil aboard that ship, I tell you. That Midshipman, he was possessed of the devil I tell you.


33 posted on 05/09/2016 5:32:24 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: Paladin2
Here's a picture I took in Togo:


34 posted on 05/09/2016 5:33:34 PM PDT by Vic S (I am not a number; I am a free man!)
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To: Vic S

Looks like a partially cut up wreck.


35 posted on 05/09/2016 5:39:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Vic S

Looks like a partially cut up wreck.


36 posted on 05/09/2016 5:39:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

They have to loot no matter where they are.


37 posted on 05/09/2016 5:41:49 PM PDT by onthegulf
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To: BenLurkin

38 posted on 05/09/2016 5:42:13 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: BenLurkin

“Liberian ... By the time authorities established a perimeter the vessel had been looted and vandalised by locals.”

The stories can almost write themselves.


39 posted on 05/09/2016 5:45:01 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Google “Nag’s Head”


40 posted on 05/09/2016 5:46:52 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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