Phantom Ship.

(See Carmilhan.)

“Or of that phantom ship, whose form

Shoots like a meteor through the storm;

When the dark scud comes driving hard,

And lowered is every topsail yard …

And well the doomed spectators know

ʹTis harbinger of wreck and woe.”

Sir Walter Scott: Rokeby, ii. 11.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.