A “ghost ship” that sparked a warning to seafarers after it was abandoned 1,300 miles off the island has made an unexpected return.The 250ft MV Alta became the centre of international attention after it ran aground last Saturday on the rocky shoreline of Ballycotton, a fishing village in Ireland, two years after it was abandoned by its crew.The cargo ship was en route from Greece to Haiti under a Tanzanian flag, when it was crippled by a power outage, which left it dead in the water to Bermuda’s southeast, as Tropical Storm Leslie brought storms to the area in October 2018.The US Coast Guard rescued its crew as Leslie worsened and Bermuda Maritime Operations reported the ship as a navigational hazard on October 9.The Alta was spotted almost a year later when Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector logged it in the mid-Atlantic.The ship’s whereabouts were unknown until Storm Dennis battered the British Isles this month and deposited the wreck on the County Cork coastline.The discovery was reported yesterday by The Irish Examiner, which said that a marine contractor would board the ship to assess its condition this week.