List of missing ships
SS Waratah and its 211 crew and passengers were never heard from after 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 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. In many cases a probable cause has been deduced, such as a known storm or warfare, but it could not be confirmed without witnesses or sufficient documentation.
Many disappearances occurred before wireless telegraphy became available in navigation applications in the late 1890s, which would have allowed crew to send a distress call. Sudden disasters such as military strike, collision, rogue wave, or piracy could also prevent a crew from sending a distress call and reporting a location.
Among the many missing ships on the list are submarines, which have limited communication, and provide the crew almost no chance of survival if struck by disaster under water.
The advancement of radar technology by the end of World War II and today's Global Positioning System make it more likely that a distressed vessel will be located.
Most vessels currently listed as missing disappeared over a vast search area and/or deep water and there is little commercial interest in searching for the vessels and salvaging the contents. Often the search and recovery costs are prohibitive even with today's sonar and wrecking technologies and could not be compensated by salvaged valuables, if indeed there were any on board. The search for these types of missing vessels is usually motivated by historical, legal or actuarial interests requiring the aid of government funding such as in the 2008 discovery of HMAS Sydney and Kormoran.[1]
The list is organised by the marine region in which the disappearance or sinking occurred, or the closest country to the area. The year of the disappearance, last known location, and possible location of the wreck are included.
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Africa
North America
South America
Prefix |
Ship |
Year |
Possible or Last known location |
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Maratonga |
2015 |
Traveling from Virginia to the Azores |
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Tunante II |
2014 |
Traveling from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro |
Antarctica
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Australia |
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Victoria
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Prefix | Ship | Year | Possible or Last Known Location |
| Flying Duck | 1876 | somewhere off Swan Island (unidentified/missing wreck)[48] |
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Western Australia
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Prefix | Ship | Year | Possible or Last Known Location |
| Patanella | 1988 | somewhere off Sydney Harbour (Suspected destroyed by a freighter at night, debris was found. )[48] |
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Undetermined Area |
Prefix | Ship | Year | Possible or Last Known Location |
| Grecian Queen | 1863 | somewhere between Newcastle and Melbourne (unidentified/missing wreck)[48] |
| John | 1806 | somewhere between King Island and Sydney[46] |
| Jumna | 1881 | somewhere between Hobart and Fremantle[48] |
| Lady Franklin | 1838 | somewhere between Sydney and Hobart[48] |
| Maid of Australia | 1834 | somewhere between Port Arthur and Port Philip[48] |
| Port Phillip Packet | 1838 | somewhere between Launceston and Port Phillip Bay[48] |
| Princess Charlotte | 1820 | somewhere between Hobart and Sydney[48] |
| Raven | 1806 | [48] |
HMS | Sappho | 1858 | somewhere in Bass Strait |
| Senorita | 1854 | somewhere between Sydney and Hobart[48] |
| Venus | 1803 | somewhere between Sydney and southern New Zealand[48] |
| Vivid | 1854 | somewhere between Melbourne and Circular Head, Tasmania[48] |
| Yarra Yarra | 1838 | somewhere between Launceston and Port Phillip Bay[48] |
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High Seas
The following lists contain entries that could not be referenced to an area close to any one particular country or an area definitely in international waters.
See also
References
- ↑ "PM offers reward to find sunken warship". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 August 2005. Archived from the original on 2010-12-06.
- ↑ "The Loss of the Waratah. The Times 23 February 1911 p.24
- ↑ Never heard of - Mysteries of the Atlantic Ferry
- ↑ L’Acadien II - Update Archived 12 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Marine Sulphur Queen Coast Guard Report Summary of Findings
- ↑ Albany
- ↑ Cyclop
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/nourse.htm Nourse Line
- ↑ Grocott, Terence, Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras, Caxton Editions, Great Britain: 2002. ISBN 978-1-84067-164-3
- ↑ Insurgent
- ↑ Lynx
- ↑ Nereus
- ↑ Pickering
- ↑ Proteus
- ↑ Saratoga
- ↑ "The Missing Boston Clipper Ship Java". The New York Times. 5 September 1869.
- ↑
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stone, Peter. "Northern territory". Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks. Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
- ↑ Runner
- ↑ Sword fish
- ↑ Grayling
- ↑ Porpoise
- ↑ Snook
- ↑ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Sickle of the S class
- ↑ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Simoom of the S class
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-47
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-246
- ↑ netmarine.net - french
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-1
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-22
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-54
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-122
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-240
- 1 2 uboat.net - Boats - U-337
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-376
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-455
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-479
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-519
- ↑ "Remember". Cymric and 11 crew. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- 1 2 uboat.net - Boats - U-703
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-745
- ↑ Semmes, Raphael, The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, Carleton, 1864, Digitized by Digital Scanning Incorporated, 2001, ISBN 978-1-58218-353-4
- ↑ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Seahorse of the S class
- ↑ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Snapper of the S class
- 1 2 3 http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/nsw-main.html Shipwrecks of New South Wales
- ↑ Australian Shipwrecks - vol 1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 978-0-589-07112-7 p50
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/tas-main.html Shipwrecks of Tasmania
- 1 2 http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/furneaux-main.html Furneaux Group Shipwrecks
- 1 2 3 http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/macquarie-main.html Macquarie Island Shipwrecks
- ↑ King Island - Mainframe
- ↑ http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/kent-main.html Kent Group Shipwrecks
- ↑ Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
- ↑ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine USS Gudgeon of the Gar class
- ↑ Eunson, Keith (1974). The wreck of the General Grant. A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd. ISBN 0-589-0080-3-X.
- ↑ Foreign Correspondent - 27 March 2007: PNG - The Search for the AE1
- ↑ Amberjack
- ↑ Grampus
- ↑ S-28
- ↑ Voyage of the Active
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-355
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-398
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-116
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-184
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-192
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-338
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-381
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-420
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-529
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-553
- ↑ uboat.net - Boats - U-1226
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/nalosses.htm North Atlantic passenger steamship losses 1841 to 1978
- ↑ Memorials & Monuments in St Ann's Church - HMS Atalanta
- ↑ Epervier
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL 13/1967
- 1 2 The Lost Gold Ship - No 67 Autumn 2001 - La Trobe Journal Archived 9 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Seefunkstelle Lashcarrier München / DEAT
- ↑ Dudley Dix on seaworthiness
- ↑ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Stonehenge of the S class
- ↑ 25 years since the Kairali sunk
- ↑ Wrecksite website and Evening Post 1934 article - 2nd column of 'Ships and the Sea'
- ↑ Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 978-0-589-07112-7 p52
- ↑ The S Y Aurora...All that Remains
- ↑ Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 978-0-589-07112-7 p40
- ↑ Kete