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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.
Bangalore (1886 ship) SS Bannockburn; Barkworth (1811 ship) SS Baychimo; Bellona (1799 ship) SS Ben Seyr; Bengal (1799 EIC ship) MS Berge Vanga; List of Bermuda Triangle incidents; HMS Blenheim (1761) Blenheim (1834 ship) Blessing of the Bay; Bridgewater (1785 EIC ship) Brilliant (1812 ship) Burmah (ship) HMS Busy (1797)
A merchant ship that was sunk after being torpedoed by U-504. It would be one of 8 Latvian ships that continued to fly the flag of Latvia and did not return home after being invaded by the Soviet Union. [28: Reina Mercedes Spanish Navy: 5 July 1898
Depth charged by Japanese escort ships while attacking a convoy in the Gulf of Thailand: May 2005 USS Grunion: 30 July 1942 Sank after torpedo and dive plane malfunction near Kiska: August 2006 USS Wahoo: 11 October 1943 Sunk after combined aerial bombing and surface depth charging in the La Pérouse Strait: 31 October 2006 USS Perch: 3 March 1942
The Russian-American Company ship (also spelled Kad’iak and Kodiak; formerly Myrtle), wrecked at Honolulu Harbor, Oahu. [7] USS LST-480 United States Navy: 21 May 1944 A tank landing ship sunk following the West Loch Disaster in Pearl Harbor. USNS Mission San Miguel United States: 8 October 1957 A fleet oiler run aground on Maro Reef. USS S-28
17 April — Unnamed ship (Habsburg Netherlands): The unknown sloop-of-war may have been one of the ships sunk during the Battle of Flushing. [ 76 ] April — ( Spain ): During the Eighty Years' War a number of Spanish warships were lost in a battle with the Dutch fleet, when attempting to break a blockade on Middelburg .
A grain cargo ship that sunk after a fire aboard. A popular dive site at Ilha Grande. Príncipe de Asturias Spain: 5 March 1916 An ocean liner that ran aground on a shoal near Ilhabela, São Paulo, resulting in at least 445 deaths. Sir Foxwell Buxton United Kingdom: 1853 An emigrant ship that ran aground off the coast of Rio Grande do Norte.
Cabot, an Italian explorer, departed with five ships during an expedition to find a western route from Europe to Asia. There are no known records of what happened to him and his expedition after that; it is not known if they disappeared at sea, remained in North America, or returned safely to Europe. [6] [7] 24 March 1500 Vasco de Ataíde: Unknown