Teignmouth Electron

Teignmouth Electron shortly after its boatyard launch in September 1968 (still from contemporary newsreel or amateur footage, as reproduced in the documentary "Deep Water")

The Teignmouth Electron was a 41-foot trimaran sailing vessel designed explicitly for Donald Crowhurst’s ill-fated attempt to sail around the world in the Golden Globe Race of 1968. She became a ghost ship after Crowhurst reported false positions and presumably died by suicide at sea. The journey was meticulously catalogued in Crowhurst's found logbooks, which also documented the captain's thoughts, philosophy, and eventual mental breakdown. Sold after its recovery, the vessel passed through several subsequent hands, being re-purposed and re-fitted as a cruise vessel and later, dive boat, before eventually being beached at Cayman Brac, a small Caribbean island, where its remains were still visible as of 2019 but in an advanced state of decay.

Remains of part of the bow of the beached Teignmouth Electron on Cayman Brac, photographed in March 2011, showing the name Teignmouth and part of the hole where a souvenir hunter has removed Electron.
Full scale replica of the Teignmouth Electron photographed in Teignmouth harbour during the shoot for the 2017 movie "The Mercy", June 2015