The Ghost Ship Jenny’s Frozen Voyage Through The Drake Passage
The story of the alleged English schooner Jenny is shrouded in mystery. According to legend, this ship departed from the Isle of Wight in 1822 and later became frozen in the Drake Passage, a notoriously dangerous body of water between Argentina and Antarctica, in 1823.
In 1840, the whaling ship Hope allegedly discovered the ghost ship Jenny, as well as the preserved remains of the vessel’s crew. Some accounts state that the Hope crew found the passengers frozen in place.
According to the Hope’s captain, the Jenny’s last log entry was made on January 17, 1823, and the ship’s last port of call was near Lima, Peru.
The earliest accounts of this haunting story appeared in the Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung in 1841, but historians have never been able to substantiate the original claims about the vessel.
Some historians suspect that this tale may have been part of newspapers’ attempts to increase readership. After all, the Arctic and Antarctic were considered to be mysterious regions to most people, and a ghost ship found near one of those areas would certainly make for a gripping tale.
