Hauntings

The Stoker on HMS Caroline

HMS Caroline, Alexandra Dock, Titanic Quarter, Belfast

Undated reports from the ship's museum era

HMS Caroline was launched in 1914, served as a combat ship in the First World War and as an administrative vessel in the Second, was decommissioned in 2011, and is now a museum ship moored in Alexandra Dock in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. The Spirited Isle directory says a man working aboard heard the sound of tools moving on the otherwise empty ship, and there has been talk of a stoker who hanged himself aboard at some point and has haunted it since. One evening a woman on a group tour is said to have greeted a stoker who ignored her, though there were no stokers aboard at the time.

Museum ship; admission charged.
Evidence
Single witness account
Access
Open, admission charged
Location
54.614, -5.903 (Sited to the building or field)

Sources: Spirited Isle, "HMS Caroline" [other]; Wikipedia, "HMS Caroline (1914)" [other]

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