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Could this Russian ghost ship infested with CANNIBAL RATS beach in Britain? Experts fear storms
have driven abandoned cruise liner towards land after Canadian tow ship lost it a YEAR ago Lyubov
Orlova has been missing in the North Atlantic since last JanuaryExperts fear high winds have driven
it worryingly close to UK shorelineLikely to have hundreds of diseased rats with only each other for
foodAbandoned liner cut adrift while being towed to Dominican Republican
BySimon Tomlinsonand Chris Brooke
PUBLISHED:03:19 EST, 23 January 2014|UPDATED:23:39 EST, 23 January 2014
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A ghost ship infested with hundreds of cannibalistic rats may end up beaching on Britain's coastline,
experts have warned.
The abandoned Lyubov Orlova has been missing since it cut adrift while being towed from Canada
nearly a year ago.
Coastguards fear the 40-year-old liner was driven across the North Atlantic by high winds and is now
lurking worryingly close to the UK shoreline.
Searchers say there are likely to be hundreds, if not thousands, of disease-ridden rats on board with
no source of food except each other.

2. Bound for Britain? The abandoned Lyubov Orlova may be bringing hundreds of disease-ridden
cannibal rats to the UK after cutting adrift in the North Atlantic a year ago
Mystery of the missing liner: The ship was being towed from Newfoundland to the Dominican
Republic in January last year when it cut adrift. Experts fear high winds have pushed it thousands of
miles towards the UK

3. Based on signals from distress beacons thought to have been set off accidentally and an unconfirmed
satellite image, it is believed the Soviet vessel could hit the West coast of Ireland, Scotland or the far
southern tip of England.
Belgian-based searcher Pim de Rhoodes said: 'She is floating around there somewhere. There will be
a lot of rats and they eat each other.'
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A spokesman for the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency said: "We have received no reported
sightings of the vessel since April, but we will respond accordingly."
The 4,250-ton Lyubov Orlova - which was built to carry 110 passengers - was impounded in
Newfoundland in 2010 after being deserted by her crew over a debt row.
Two years later, she was towed to the Dominican Republic to be scrapped.
Cannibal carnage: Searchers say there are likely to be hundreds, if not thousands, of disease-ridden
rats on board with no source of food except each other (file picture)

4. Lost at sea: Coastguards fear the 40-year-old liner was driven across the North Atlantic by high
winds and is now lurking worryingly close to the UK shoreline
But when she came loose, the Canadian government decided to drag her far out to sea and leave her
there.
Adventurers - who want to cash in on the ship's ??600,000 value as scrap - do not believe she has
sunk because the life-raft transmitters would have gone off.
The sign of her since has been two distress beacons picked up mid-Atlantic in March last year which
are thought to have gone off when life-rafts fell into the water.
A few weeks later, a satellite spotted a blip off the coast of Scotland big enough to be the ship, but
no vessel was found. After that, nothing has been seen of the 300ft liner.
Irish coastguard Chris Reynolds said: 'We must stay vigilant.
'We don"t want rats from foreign ships coming onto Irish soil. If it came and broke up on shore, I"m
sure local people wouldn"t be very happy about it."
The Lyubov is now gaining in notoriety in internet discussion forums, an iPhone app called Find
Orlova and its own Twitter account.
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Gobstop,Surrey,18 hours ago
Target practice for HMS Daring methinks.....go on lads have fun!
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Dave,Plymouth, United Kingdom,18 hours ago
Simple. SINK IT
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DavidRN1,Edinburgh,18 hours ago
Time to send the Navy in and have some target practice and sink it
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patsy,hastings,18 hours ago
Poor old Ratty.
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tonethemoan,SOUTH CROYDON, United Kingdom,18 hours ago
Space-filling second hand ("The Sun reports ...) unsubstantiated "news" reporting - based on a
supposed satellite image in March last year, & assumptions that after more than 12 months has

8. elapsed there will be hundreds of "cannibalistic" rats - come on, DM, even for you this is laughable
journalism.....
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A D Enuff,cambridge,18 hours ago
Why doe,nt the navy or air force just use it for target practice?simple!
ReplyNew14461Click to rate
doowdivad,Dublin,18 hours ago
Oh my God, cannibal rats, they've probably mutated now! Maybe they learned to sail the vessel and
are building a mighty armada with all their other furry cannibal friends and they're going to invade
us. Oh no. hordes of mutant cannibal rats are on the way!
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Stargazing,Slough,18 hours ago
Once the rats get here we'd best make sure we jump them to the top of the social housing ladder and
give them school places, ensuring complete disregard to overcrowding and ensuring lessons are
taught in both English and Rat.
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DaveR1,Hertfordshire, United Kingdom,18 hours ago
If we can find Russian spy trawlers surely the RAF nimrods with their high power radar can detect a
ship this large?
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Nicola Mcmurrough,Harrogate, United Kingdom,18 hours ago
Gas the ship
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