MV Joyita

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

"The vessel would never sink unless she broke up... I just can't understand why everybody would have abandoned her."

On 10 November 1955, Captain Gerald Douglas of the merchant ship Tuvalu sighted the MV Joyita in the South Pacific near Fiji. The Joyita had left Samoa in the first week of October and was five weeks overdue to arrive in the Tokelau Islands, a territory of New Zealand, and was nearly 800 miles off-course.

When it had left port, there had been 25 people aboard the Joyita, 16 crew and 9 passengers, plus four tons of cargo. Yet the Tuvalu's boarding party found the ship barren and abandoned...

Episode researched & written by Troy Larson

Episode hosted & produced by Micheal Whelan

Original music created by Micheal Whelan through Amper Music

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1:24.4	Where is everybody? All of the visual clues remain. Empty homes, businesses, schools,
1:30.2	and churches. To remind us that people were here, but now they're gone. Where did they
1:36.0	go? And why?
1:38.5	The question becomes even more intriguing when it involves a ship found abandoned. You can't
1:43.8	just walk away from a ship on the sea. The concept of the ghost ship has long fascinated
1:49.5	us. Perhaps partly because it's hard to understand how a ship's entire human
1:53.7	complement could vanish. Or why they would voluntarily leave a boat that proved itself
1:59.1	see where they long after they were gone.
2:02.1	On November 10, 1955, Captain Gerald Douglas of the merchant ship Tuvalu cited the
2:08.8	MV Huayita in the South Pacific. It had left Samoa in the first week of October and was
2:14.9	five weeks overdue to arrive in the Tokalau Islands, a territory of New Zealand, and nearly
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