With notes upon their origin. The vast number of reported legends of uncanny ships may, perhaps, be reduced to the five classes represented by the five stories here presented, and they were selected for this reason. These stories are illustrative of these five classes, or reward ships, punishment ships, spectres, ships of the death voyage, and devil ships, because the story chosen in each instance appears to be a clear example of its own class, uncontaminated by elements belonging to the other classes, as is so frequently the case in folk stories.