IS THIS the ghost of the famous Elizabethan ship that floundered off Alderney in 1592?
Mr Cook was on a drive around the island with his wife.
‘It was a misty day and quite atmospheric and my wife asked me to stop the car so she could take a picture of the lighthouse,’ said Mr Cook.
‘She was just using her point-and-shoot camera and said she could see something at sea.
‘I got my camera out and zoomed in on it and I could make out a small three-masted vessel hugging the coast.
‘We watched it for a while as it made its way to the breakwater and towards Guernsey, passing a Condor ferry on the way.’
Mr Cook suggested it could be The Matthew, a replica of the 15th-century ship that took John Cabot from Bristol to Newfoundland.
‘When I got back I noticed it wasn’t docked, so I thought it could be the one I saw.’
But doubts persist. Enquiries to the organisation that runs the Matthew for corporate and public trips have not yielded a response, and the vessel did not stop at Guernsey or Alderney, according to harbour authorities.
Was it a ghost ship?
Source: This is Guernsey
