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List of missing ships. SS Waratah and its 211 crew and passengers were last heard from on 27 July 1909. Its wreck has yet to be found. This is a list of missing ships and wrecks. If it is known that the ship in question sank, then its wreck has not yet been located. Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of ...
"On the night of June 6, 1853, the clipper ship Carrier Pigeon ran aground 500 feet off shore of the central California coast. The area is now called Pigeon Point in her honor. The Carrier Pigeon was a state-of-the art, 19th Century clipper ship. She was 175 feet long with a narrow, 34 foot beam and rated at about 845 tons burden.
31. Hawaii, U.S. Aikau, a Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer, disappeared on 17 March 1978 when he was lost at sea while attempting to reach the island of Lanai on a surfboard. The long-distance Hawaiian outrigger, the Hōkūleʻa, on which he was a crew member, began taking on water 20 miles off Molokai.
Amelia Earhart's missing modified Lockheed Model 10 Electra. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is officially the flight with the most missing people (239 missing), although remains of the plane have been found in the Indian Ocean. This list of missing aircraft includes aircraft that have disappeared and whose locations are unknown.
30 July 1942. A German U-boat sunk by a depth charge from a US Navy patrol boat. 28°37′N 90°45′W. / 28.617°N 90.750°W / 28.617; -90.750 ( German submarine U-166 (1941)) USS Varuna. United States Navy. 24 April 1862. A steamship that sank in the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip . USCGC White Alder.
460,000 bbl (73,000 m 3) SS Sansinena was a Liberian oil tanker that exploded in Los Angeles harbor on Friday, 17 December 1976 at 7:33pm. She was docked at berth 46 at Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California . The vessel was a steamship [citation needed][dubious – discuss] built in 1958. At its final port of call, Sansinena had ...
Fifty-two submarines of the United States Navy were lost during World War II. [5] Two – Dorado (SS-248) and Seawolf (SS-197) – were lost to friendly fire (though there is speculation that the Dorado may have struck a German mine), at least three more – Tulibee, Tang, and Grunion – to defective torpedoes, and six to accident or grounding ...
Sank on Lake Superior. The Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729-foot-long (222 m) freighter that sank of an unknown cause in a storm on Lake Superior. The Fitzgerald is the largest ship to sink on the lakes. 46°59.91′N 85°06.61′W. / 46.99850°N 85.11017°W / 46.99850; -85.11017 ( SS Edmund Fitzgerald) SS Carl D. Bradley.