Silver Star Ghost Ship

This is the legend of the S.S. Ourang Medan. Many years ago, several British and Dutch outposts received an S.O.S. From a Dutch Freightliner called the S.S. Ourang Medan, which was sailing through the Straits of Malacca.

Oceania, 1947 or 1948: The American vessel 'Silver Star' picks up an SOS from a Dutch freighter by the name of 'Ourang Medan': 'We drift stop second officer.

The message was simple:“All officers including captain are dead, lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.”Then a final transmission—“I die.” The Silver Star ship attempts a rescueThe Silver Star, an American ship was closest to the Ourang Medan. The captain agreed to find the Ourang Medan and offer help. Upon finding the ship, crew members of the Silver Star called out to the disabled ship.

No one responded. The ship was silent. It didn’t appear that anyone was on the ship.A rescue crew from the Silver Star boarded the Ourang Medan to investigate.

The dishwasher vampire smile wiki. What the crew saw next would become one of the strangest unsolved mysteries of our time. Including the ship's captain, the entire crew was dead. Corpses littered the ship.The sailor who sent the SOS was also found dead with his finger on the telegraph. Even the ship’s dog didn’t survive.The crew looked as if something had terrified them to death. Their eyeballs bulged from the sockets and their mouths were wide open as if they tried to release a final scream. Many of the bodies also had outstretched arms as if they were trying to grab something.Survivors attached a line to the Ourang Medan to tow it. Moments after the rescue crew had returned to the Silver Star, smoke billowed from the lower part of the Ourang Medan.

With minutes to spare, the Silver Star crew cut the towline. The Ourang Medan exploded and sank to the bottom of the ocean. The explosion led to one of the strangest unsolved mysteries of our time.Conspiracy theorists believe several countries worked together to cover up the Ourang Medan incident. For instance, this story happened in either June 1947 or February 1948. No one is sure when.

And then the Coast Guard didn’t report the Ourang Medan story until May 1954. However, there were earlier references in newspapers but they withheld information. It’s believed the Ourang Medan was transporting a top-secret chemical weaponHistorians and conspiracy theorists have researched this incident extensively. Basically, the mystery ship never existed because there isn’t any proof of its existence.

And the logs of the Silver Star omit any records of the attempted rescue. No crew members of the Silver Star ever shared any relevant information with the media. So if the Ourang Medan never existed, then why did the Coast Guard reference the story in 1954? And then the CIA in 1959? For a ship that never existed, it has been the subject of many unanswered questions. Other theories are that either pirates or aliens killed the ship's crew.

I have even seen carbon monoxide poisoning or some other chemical poisoning listed as the killer. But if true, wouldn’t the crew from the Silver Star have also been poisoned? Another oddity was that crew members of the Silver Star said they felt cold chills aboard the Ourang Medan. Cold chills on a day with a temperature over 100 degrees?

This is another mystery that will stay unsolved. Answers to any questions about the ship's crew rest somewhere on the bottom of the Straits of Malacca. We and our partners use technologies, such as cookies, and process personal data, such as IP addresses and cookie identifiers, to personalise ads and content based on your interests, measure the performance of ads and content, and derive insights about the audiences who saw ads and content. For further details, please read our. Click on the 'Accept' button to allow these uses or on 'Edit' to get more details and/or reject all or part of them.

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slideshow exclude=”4109″In December 1940, a British steamship bound for Liverpool left Calcutta laden with precious cargo, including up to 240 tons of silver worth an estimated $210 million in today’s dollars. Operating for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of War Transport, which requisitioned merchant ships during World War II, SS Gairsoppa joined a military convoy and headed northward into waters swarming with German submarines. On February 14, 1941, dwindling coal reserves and stormy weather forced the lagging vessel to break away from its escorts and make for the port of Galway in western Ireland.

Three days later, a Nazi U-boat commanded by the decorated German captain Ernst Mengersen launched a torpedo that ripped through Gairsoppa’s steel hull, toppling its foremast and destroying its wireless antenna. Unable to send out a distress call, the surviving members of the ship’s 85-strong crew came under machine gun fire as they scrambled onto lifeboats. Their burning craft, built in 1919 and designed for commerce rather than warfare, sank within 20 minutes, disappearing into the frigid depths of the North Atlantic roughly 300 miles west of Ireland. A single lifeboat reached Cornwall 13 days later; the rest were lost at sea. It capsized while drifting near the coast, however, throwing several men into the surf. Three schoolgirls spotted the incident and summoned help, but only one person—Gairsoppa’s second officer, Richard Ayres—was dragged ashore, barely alive after two weeks on the open water.

He received high honors for his efforts to save his fellow sailors and died in 1992. The lifeboat’s other passengers are thought to have died during the journey or drowned in its final moments.