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FV Andrea Gail was an American commercial fishing vessel that was lost at sea with all hands during the Perfect Storm of 1991. The vessel and her six-man crew had been fishing the North Atlantic Ocean out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her last reported position was 180 mi (290 km) northeast of Sable Island on October 28, 1991.
Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of disappearance. The disappearance of a ship usually implies all hands lost. Without witnesses or survivors, the mystery surrounding the fate of missing ships has inspired many items of nautical lores and the creation of paranormal zones such as the Bermuda Triangle.
The 195-gross ton, 81.6-foot (24.9 m) or 98-foot (29.9 m) crab-fishing vessel disappeared in the Bering Sea near St. George Island with the loss of all five men on board. The United States Coast Guard determined that a radio message from an unnamed vessel reporting herself in distress about 40 nautical miles (74 km; 46 mi) west of St. George ...
The anchored 17.35-metre (56 ft 11 in) fishing vessel suffered a fire in her engine room in the evening of 17 September in the Wadden Sea south east of Amrum Island. She burned out and sank in shallow water ( 54°36′N 08°29′E / 54.600°N 8.483°E / 54.600; 8.483 ) at 02:45 on 18 September
Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck of 27 March 2009 – An unnamed fishing vessel, carrying migrants and refugees bound for Europe and described as unseaworthy, capsized off the coast of Tripoli in poor weather. Italian and Libyan naval vessels rescued 21 survivors, while at least 200 people drowned. 200–225 2005 Bangladesh
The fishing vessel Dearyn was sunk in a hit-and-run collision north west of Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. [151] The oil crude tanker Pacific Anna collided with Dearyn killing three people.
Category for ships that remain lost at sea under unexplained circumstances, ... Pacesetter (fishing vessel) SS Pacific (1849) French cutter Pandour (1780)
The 115-foot (35 m) fishing vessel was sunk in a collision with the container ship MSC Rita ( Panama) 60 miles (97 km) off the coast of Virginia, 95 miles (153 km) north east of Norfolk, Virginia, in the Atlantic Ocean. 12 on board went into a life raft and were picked up by Atlantis ( United States), the vessel's captain was taken off by a ...