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Lady Lovibond

Lady Lovibond ghost ship coming for you

Beginning

The sea for ages has been a mysterious place that people have tried to explore it in all of its beauty and vastness. There are a lot of unexplainable things that happen out at sea and the story of Lady Lovibond is no exception. Lady Lovibond is one of the most famous ghost ships in Europe today; it’s still talked about today even though after 1998 there hasn’t been any recorded evidence. Some of the other most famous ghost ships are The Flying Dutchman, The Mary Celeste, The Caleuche and many more. As long as we have the seas there will always be people trying to find different places and trying to put their name down in history, but than on the other side you will have those stories of horrible sad tales of ghost stories. People have been trying to find new things in the seas some of these explorations have been good and than others not so good. Ghost ships have been a captivating tale that has been told though-out history of sailing. They have made movies and books on different types of ghost story's. There is no movies on Lady Lovibond but there is an actress with the name, her name is Ophelia Lovibond.

Introduction

The British story of Lady Lovibond is a tale of one’s jealous rage that took over at sea whether the story is true or not her story is still a captivating story today. Legend has it that the ship Lady Lovibond was taking a cruise to celebrate the Captain Simon Peel’s marriage to his bride. It was a constant superstition of sailors at the time that having women on board was bad luck so they tried to keep women off of ships, but Captain Peel brought his bride, the bride’s mother and wedding party aboard on the ship against tradition. The ship was carrying its crew members and around fifty guests on board, the ship took off from Portugal and it end up wrecking of the coast of England in the Goodwin Sands on February 13, 1748 which the 13th was on the Friday the 13th. And it is said that the ship appears every fifty years.

The Legend of the Ship

The Ship Lady Lovibond was a three-masted schooner ship which was a reality new ship for its time. So as the story is told the helmsman or the third mate or first mate they don’t know which one it was but they know his name was Rivers, Rivers was a jealous man who was in love with the bride. It was said that Rivers and the bride had been in a romantic relationship (although Captain Peel apparently was uninformed of it) but she sought a better life for herself than what Rivers could provide for her as a common seaman. At the time of the wreck it had been a clear sky’s no storm’s to come, it was said that Captain Peel and his guest where below deck and there were two different types of story’s that could have happened. As the first story goes the first mate Rivers marched the deck above as the captain and his young bride and invited guests celebrated below. Rivers overwhelmed in a fit of jealous rage grabbed a club and crushed the skull of the seaman at the wheel, than he directed the Lady Lovibond into the treacherous Goodwin Sands which is eleven miles long covering four miles in to by dry land and shallowly covered at high tide, which makes it like quicksand. He drove the ship into it which wrecked the ship and killed everyone aboard. The other story is that Rivers actually murdered Captain Peel and steered the ship into Goodwin Sands which killed everyone onboard out of an act of selfishness. The Goodwin Sands has as many estimated as two thousand ships over the centuries, have been lost in their quicksand. It is said that the ship Lady Lovibond has been seen the anniversary of the wreck. Sailors have reported seeing the ghostly ships passing by their ships and crushing into the Goodwin Sands. Fifty years later, the first phantom spotting of the Lady Lovibond happened on February 13, 1798 two ships spotted Lady Lovibond and almost collided but they avoid the ship. The Captain of one of the ships reported hearing strange sounds coming from below the deck as it passed by. The second ship that spotted her that night was a fishing boat. The captain of this boat reported that they had seen the Lady Lovibond going aground and then breakdown; he reported this when they went to save the survivors but the sands were vacant and quiet. Another fifty years later in 1848 the Lady Lovibond made her next appearance. To the sailors on shore at Deal Lady Lovibond seemed so real they even sent out lifeboats to rescue any potential survivors, as the men later came closer they he ship just appeared to just fade away into the sea. Than about 100 years later in 1948 Captain Bull Prestwick spotted her. He thought Lady Lovibond looked real in spite of the fact that she gave off a weird green glow. And then in 1998 there were possible sightings but they were never recorded.

Peer Reiview

Peer #1: So your article is going off a periodical approach, so far so good, I don't want to mess with spelling and grammar, but site your sources in your article with " < ref > " within the sentence.
Make sure sources are APA and in alphabetical order. Go here and fix your sources >>>> Citation Machine (BigbrownPaddlaa (talk) 18:19, 6 April 2012 (UTC))