Case file · Haunting
The frozen schooner Jenny
A tale tells that in 1860 the whaler Hope found the British schooner Jenny locked in Antarctic ice in the Drake Passage, her crew frozen where they sat and her captain at his desk with a pen in hand.
1860 CE · -60.50, -65.00 · status: legend
The account
The captain's last log entry was said to read 4 May 1823: 'No food for 71 days. I am the only one left alive.' The story has circulated since the 19th century and in ghost-ship collections.
The sceptical view
No record of the find in contemporary shipping registers or newspapers has been identified; it is best treated as a legend.