There are ships that sink, and then there are ships that disappear . The SS Michelle falls into the latter category—except, unlike the Mary Celeste , she didn’t just vanish once. She vanished twice.
I don't have the answer. But next time you look out at a grey, choppy sea, remember: the ocean gives up its dead reluctantly. And sometimes, it gives up its ships one piece at a time. ss michelle
If you scour official Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, you’ll find almost nothing. A brief mention: "SS Michelle. Steel-hulled cargo vessel. Built 1947, Hamburg. Lost at sea, 1952." But the locals in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland will tell you a different story. They’ll tell you they saw her again, thirty years later. There are ships that sink, and then there
A three-week search found nothing. No lifeboats. No debris. The six crewmen were declared dead. The SS Michelle was officially stricken from the registry. On a foggy August morning, a lobster fisherman named Ewan MacTavish was hauling his pots off the coast of St. Kilda. According to his logbook (which I was allowed to view at the Inverness Archives), he saw a vessel emerge from the mist. I don't have the answer
Was it a hallucination? A different ship with a similar name? Or is the SS Michelle still out there, waiting for the right fog to return?