death ship
Ship carrying corpses
A death ship is a vessel in dangerously poor condition, often inadequately maintained or overloaded, risking the lives of crew and passengers.
The term also applies to ships carrying people to their deaths—whether slave ships, vessels transporting condemned prisoners, or boats packed with desperate migrants.
In folklore and fiction, a death ship is a ghostly vessel crewed by the dead or doomed, like the Flying Dutchman.
- vesselReceptacle for contents
- voyageJourney by sea
- plagueDeadly epidemic disease
- wreckDestroyed vessel or vehicle
- cursedUnder a malevolent spell
haunted · Flying Dutchman · doomed · skeleton crew · maritime · shipwreck · souls · spectral · sailors · drowned · lost at sea · watery grave · sea burial · pestilence · emigrant · famine · corpse · no survivors
- Ghost ShipsFlying Dutchman, Mary Celeste, Octavius, Jenny, Marlborough
death shiplifeboat
Emergency vessel for survivors
rescue ship · rescue vessel · hospital ship · life raft · coast guard cutter
death shipluxury liner
Upscale passenger vessel
pleasure cruise · cruise ship · passenger liner · ocean liner · party boat
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