Ye ghost ship – Historic Reproduction
![Ye ghost ship, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/halloween/img/c2/c27b27e17f75-L.webp)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Ye ghost ship. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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A phantom vessel takes center stage in "Ye ghost ship," a wood engraving whose title promises a tale of the uncanny at sea. The caption card ties the scene to New Haven, Connecticut, and to the year 1647, less than a decade after Puritan settlers founded the town in 1638, when its harbor was already a working port. The engraving comes from *Pictures of Old New Haven*, a collection that mixed local history with imagery, though the card records no date or artist. Ghost ships like this one belong to a long seafaring tradition in which unseen crews and lost vessels were believed to haunt coastal waters.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Original scan | 2,700 × 2,375 px · prints to 9 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3b16716_Yeghostship |
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