Ghost ship full of cannibal rats could be about to crash into the English coast

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There are fears a ghost ship full of diseased cannibal rats could be about to crash into the coast of Devon or Cornwall.

The abandoned Lyubov Orlova has been missing since it cut adrift while being towed from Canada nearly a year ago.

Coastguards fear the 40-year-old liner has been driven across the Atlantic by high winds and is now close to the UK shore.

Based on emergency beacons activated last year aboard the ship, it is feared the 40-year-old Yugoslavian liner registered to Russia could now crash into the shore of Devon, Cornwall, Ireland or Scotland.

Those searching for the ship say there are likely to be thousands of disease-ridden rats on board with no source of food except each other, according to The Sun.

Belgian-based searcher Pim de Rhoodes said: "She is floating around there somewhere. There will be a lot of rats and they eat each other."

The 4,250-ton ship built to carry 110 passengers was impounded in Canada in 2010 after being deserted by her crew in a debt row.

Two years later, she was towed to the Dominican Republic to be scrapped - but abandoned when she broke free.

Nothing has been seen of the 300ft liner since the middle of last year, but she is believed to be heading this way.

A spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said there had been no sightings of the ship since April - but said that if it entered UK waters it may not be reported as the shipping channel is so busy.

The MCA believes the ship may have sunk, but those searching for the ship to cash in its £600,000 scrap value say sinking would have activated emergency beacons aboard the liferafts.

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You don't necessarily need a barrel baited with coconut, then.

Time for the navy to earn its keep.

Lovely stuff. I heard on the grapevine that Silva's brother was the ship's captain.

Wasn't there a Lyubov Orlova doing the rounds at Baker Street?

This ship could be used for target pactice by any navy, so why has that not happened?

Hilly KCMG wrote:

Time for the navy to earn its keep.

We will decide which rats come into our country, and the circumstances under which they come.

However, we will not tell you about it when they try to arrive, as doing so might tip the rats off to our strategy.

It's always a comforting thought when, in a straight fight between a billion-dollar navy and an abandoned and barely-seaworthy cruise liner populated exclusively by cannibalistic rats, the only thing standing between certain victory and absolute defeat is how much you tell the media.

It all sounds a bit like what Irma Bunt was up to at the end of John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

Fan of Columbo, SSGM?

Largo's Shark wrote:

Fan of Columbo, SSGM?

Well spotted, Largo's Shark! Yes, a big fan of Columbo here. I have all 69 episodes on DVD. Robert Culp's my favourite guest star in the series.

Leave the ship alone long enough and there will be only two rats left, and they'll be threat to anyone - except other rats...