This is a replica of Mocha Dick, the most famous whale in history, a 70-foot sperm whale that famously battled around 100 whaling ships during its lifetime in the 19th century. It sank around 20 of them and evaded capture for three decades.
The Baychimo, a 1,300-ton cargo steamer that was abandoned in 1931 and became one of history’s longest-running “ghost ships.” It remained afloat and unmanned for 38 years, drifting along in the Arctic before its last recorded sighting in 1969. Image is of Baychimo in trapped in Ice 1933
