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The ghost ship Jian Seng

On 24 March 2006 an Australian coastwatch plane spotted the 80 m tanker Jian Seng drifting with no crew and no identifying papers in the Gulf of Carpentaria, west of Weipa.

2006 CE · -12.50, 141.00 · status: unexplained

The account

Her owners were never found. She was towed to sea and sunk by the authorities.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Jian Seng
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