| Lady Lovibond | |
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Origin |
Lady Lovibond |
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Type |
Schooner |
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Effects |
Haunts areas of romantic-originated violence |
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Downsides |
Vanishes underwater when active |
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Activation |
Presence of couples |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
June 17, 1998 |
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Origin[]
The Lady Lovibond is the name given to a legendary schooner alleged to have been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, off southeast England, on 13 February 1748, and is said to reappear there every fifty years as a ghost ship. No contemporary records of the ship or its supposed sinking have been found.
The story goes that the ship was at sea because her captain Simon Reed had just been married, and was celebrating the occasion with a cruise. Despite the longstanding sailors' superstition that it was bad luck to bring a woman on board, Reed had brought his bride Annetta with him on the ship. First mate John Rivers, a romantic rival, was seized with a fit of jealous rage. Casually drawing a heavy, club-like belaying pin from the rail, the mate walked up behind the crew member at the wheel and felled him with one blow. Rivers then seized the wheel and steered the ship onto the treacherous Goodwin Sands, killing everyone aboard.
The first supposed sighting of the phantom Lady Lovibond, on 13 February, 1798, was reported by at least two ships. Its alleged 1848 appearance convinced local seamen that a wreck had occurred. Captain Bull Prestwick allegedly sighted her in 1948 and reported that she looked real, but gave off an eerie white glow. There was no reported 1998 sighting. The Goodwin Sands are England's most fertile grounds for ghost ships, and are also the location of the legendary island of Lomea. The Lady Lovibond shares the area with two other phantom vessels: a liner called the SS Montrose, and the Shrewsbury, a man-of-war.
Effects[]
Lounges around areas related to violence caused by romantic lust or jealousy. Will periodically glow and haunt for periods of 13 days before disappearing to another similar area. If an actual act happens nearby then the ship will submerge to leave, drowning all aboard and the subjects on land in the process. Reappears every half century off the English coast; unknown what will happen in 2048 now that it’s within Warehouse custody.