Time Travel at Sea: How the SS Warrimoo was in Two Different Days, Two Different Months, Two Different Years, Two Different seasons, and Two Different Centuries – All at the Same Time!

Credits:  Article and images by Ian Skellern @ Quill & Pad.  See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2023/11/04/time-travel-at-sea-how-the-ss-warrimoo-was-in-two-different-days-two-different-months-two-different-years-two-different-seasons-and-two-different-centuries-all-at-the-same-time/

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Calm weather and clear skies at night made things easier. At mid-night the SS Warrimoo lay across the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line.

SS Warrimoo’s alleged position

This resulted in the following:

1. The forward bow of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere in the middle of summer and the stern was in the Northern Hemisphere in the middle of winter.

2. The date in the stern was the 31^st of December 1899 and the date in the bow was the 1st of January 1900.

So the ship was simultaneously in two different days, two different months, two different years, two different seasons, and two different centuries.

But is it true? Possibly.

Contemporaneous reporting in January 1900 indicates that the SS Warrimoo was in the right area at the right time for this story to possibly be true.

SS Warrimoo update

But the fact that it wasn’t reported until 40+ years latter points towards skepticism. Other documentation like copies of the ship’s log, contemporaneous reporting of the event, and accounts from other Warrimoo crew and passengers would help verify the claim, but no such documentation has yet been found.

And then there’s the fact that even if the Warrimoo‘s crew intended to position the ship so that it simultaneously spanned the equator and 180th meridian precisely at midnight on 31 December 1899, whether they could have accurately achieved that given the navigation technology of the time is an open question.

But let’s not let the pesky facts stand in the way of a good story.

For more information, please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Warrimoo

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Credits:  Article and images by Ian Skellern @ Quill & Pad.  See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2023/11/04/time-travel-at-sea-how-the-ss-warrimoo-was-in-two-different-days-two-different-months-two-different-years-two-different-seasons-and-two-different-centuries-all-at-the-same-time/