Creatures, legends & belief
Ghost ship Jenny
maritime legendEvidence status
Historical analysis finds a migratory legend, not a verified vessel discovery.
Editorial assessment of this proposition; not a numeric confidence score.
Claim or proposition being examined
A ship trapped for years in Antarctic ice was found with a frozen crew and logbook.
Limitations
Source demonstrates circulation of the claim, not its truth; independently authenticated evidence is required.
Catalog review date reported: 2026-10-28. This is inherited catalog metadata, not a new verification of the linked source.
Research-document thumbnail: title and abstract of the exact 2022 historical analysis linked in this record. The article examines transmission of the Jenny legend; this is not a photograph, shipwreck record or authenticated discovery of the supposed ghost ship.
Frank M. Schuster, “In search of the origin of an Antarctic ghost ship: The legend of the Jenny re-evaluated, ” Polar Record 58, e 13(2022), DOI 10.1017/S 0032247422000110. CC BY 4.0.
Crop from published first page; complete first page supplied. No imagined ship illustration used. Contemporary scholarly assessment, not an 1841 primary newspaper facsimile.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
© Frank M. Schuster 2022. Open access CC BY 4.0, explicitly stated by publisher and PDF. Attribution and license link required; title/abstract crop disclosed.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- claim documentation and/or assessmenthttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/in-search-of-the-origin-of-an-antarctic-ghost-ship-the-legend-of-the-jenny-reevaluated/2D88EE4809DBEB54676E3904A48C3A78
- displayed image provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/in-search-of-the-origin-of-an-antarctic-ghost-ship-the-legend-of-the-jenny-reevaluated/2D88EE4809DBEB54676E3904A48C3A78
- image-specific reuse conditionshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- documentary target record; may differ from displayed reproductionhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/in-search-of-the-origin-of-an-antarctic-ghost-ship-the-legend-of-the-jenny-reevaluated/2D88EE4809DBEB54676E3904A48C3A78
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