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1. I am a legend and a Wagner Opera. I sail the seas of Cape Horn under Captain Vandemeer. Seeing me is considered very bad luck.
2. This abandoned vessel was found off the Azores in 1872 in good shape. No crew on board, and no clues to what happened.
3. I was real but rumored to be haunted. Old sailors told of a riveter said to have died between my twin hulls. In storms, an eerie banging was heard coming from deep inside, a true "Tommyknocker."
4. A ghost ship with "Death" and "Nightmare Life-in-death" on board meets a sailor with an albatross around his neck. Who wrote of this spectral encounter in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?"
5. In 1931, the steamship "Baychimo" was lost off Point Barrow Alaska and was seen off and on for the next 40 years. What was the name of the famous Arctic trading company that owned her?
6. According to legend, the "Octavia" sailed through this often ice-bound passage. Unfortunately all the crew and passengers were found frozen to death so it didn't count for the record books.
7. This fictional ship was named for the Greek Goddess of the harvest. Found off Whitby England with the dead captain lashed to the wheel, she transported Count Dracula from Transylvania to England.
8. Known as the "Flying Dutchman of the Great Lakes," this steamer with a name like a Scottish victory, disappeared on a snowy Lake Superior night in 1902.
9. The "most haunted ship in the US Navy" is berthed in Alameda, California. Over the course of her commission, over 300 airman and sailors died while serving on board. A namesake vessel launched the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in 1942.
10. A Hollywood legend. We first meet this ship with a ghostly crew and an undead monkey searching for pirated Aztec gold.
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