Are there more ghost ships like MV Alta drifting across the oceans?

The derelict Alta’s voyage ended on rocks near Ballycotton, south-east of Cork. Photograph: Cathal Noonan/AFP via Getty Images Photograph: Cathal Noonan/AFP via Getty Images

Isn’t it extraordinary that the MV Alta cargo ship, all 77 metres of it, drifted crewless across the Atlantic for more than a year before fetching up on the Irish coast? Or are there more of these “ghost ships” haunting the oceans?

Peter Billing, Great Yarmouth

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