aircraft An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines ...

Eudoxus of Cyzicus Eudoxus of Cyzicus (; el, Εὔδοξος ὁ Κυζικηνός, ''Eúdoxos ho Kyzikēnós''; fl. c. 130 BC) was a Greek navigator who explored the Arabian Sea for Ptolemy VIII, king of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. Voyages to I ...

Gulf of Aden The Gulf of Aden ( ar, خليج عدن, so, Gacanka Cadmeed 𐒅𐒖𐒐𐒕𐒌 𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒗𐒒) is a deepwater gulf of the Indian Ocean between Yemen to the north, the Arabian Sea to the east, Djibouti to the west, and the Guardafui Channe ...

Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea ( ar, اَلْبَحرْ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Bahr al-ˁArabī) is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel ...

Ptolemy VIII Physcon Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon ( gr, Πτολεμαῖος Εὐεργέτης Τρύφων, ''Ptolemaĩos Euergétēs Tryphon'' "Ptolemy the Benefactor; c. 184 BC – 28 June 116 BC), nicknamed Physcon ( "Fatty"), was a king of the Ptolema ...

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an area ...

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

mansa Mansa may refer to: Places In India * Mansa, Gujarat, a town in northern Gujarat, Western India; the capital of: ** Mansa, Gujarat Assembly constituency ** Mansa State, a princely state under the Mahi Kantha Agency in India * Mansa district, ...

Mali Empire The Mali Empire ( Manding: ''Mandé''Ki-Zerbo, Joseph: ''UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. IV, Abridged Edition: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century'', p. 57. University of California Press, 1997. or Manden; ar, مالي, Māl ...

Mansa Musa Mansa Musa ( ar, منسا موسى, Mansā Mūsā; ) was the ninth ''mansa'' of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa is known for his wealth and generosity. He has been subject to popular claims that he is ...

Jaume Ferrer Jaume Ferrer (, fl. 1346) was a Majorcan sailor and explorer. He sailed from Majorca to find the legendary "River of Gold" on 10 August 1346, but the outcome of his quest and his fate are unknown. He is memorialized in his native city of Palma, ...

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

Majorca Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bal ...

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

João Afonso do Estreito João Afonso do Estreito, from Funchal, Madeira, was a partner and co-captain in the Dulmo-Estreito expedition of 1487, a proposed pre-Columbian voyage of exploration across the Atlantic. Although licensed by King João II of Portugal, there is n ...

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...

Vasco de Ataíde Vasco de Ataíde (or Taide) was a Portuguese sailor whose ship was a part of Pedro Álvares Cabral 1500 expedition to India. His ship went missing early in the voyage and so was not present when the fleet accidentally became the first recorded ...

Cape Verde , national_anthem = () , official_languages = Portuguese , national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole , capital = Praia , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , demonym ...

Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope ( af, Kaap die Goeie Hoop ) ;''Kaap'' in isolation: pt, Cabo da Boa Esperança is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is t ...

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

Gaspar Corte-Real Gaspar Corte-Real (1450–1501) was a Portuguese explorer who, alongside his father João Vaz Corte-Real and brother Miguel, participated in various exploratory voyages sponsored by the Portuguese Crown. These voyages are said to have been some o ...

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

Miguel Corte-Real Miguel Corte-Real (; – 1502?) was a Portuguese explorer who charted about 600 miles of the coast of Labrador. In 1502, he disappeared while on an expedition and was believed to be lost at sea. Early life Miguel Corte-Real was a son of ...

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...

Diego de Nicuesa Diego de Nicuesa (; died 1511) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer. Background Diego arrived Santo Domingo in April 1502, with Nicolás de Ovando y Cáceres' flotilla. In 1506, Nicuesa was given the job of governing Costa Rica, but ran agrou ...

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

Santo Domingo , total_type = Total , population_density_km2 = auto , timezone = AST (UTC −4) , area_code_type = Area codes , area_code = 809, 829, 849 , postal_code_type = Postal codes , postal_code = 10100–10699 (Distrito Nacional) , websi ...

Santa María la Antigua del Darién Santa María la Antigua del Darién—turned into Dariena in the Latin of Decades of the New World, De Orbo Novo—was a Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonial town founded in 1510 by Vasco Núñez de Balboa, located in present-d ...

Francisco de Hoces Francisco de Hoces (died 1526) was a Spanish sailor who in 1525 joined the Loaísa Expedition to the Spice Islands as commander of the vessel ''San Lesmes''. In January 1526, the ''San Lesmes'' was blown by a gale southwards from the eastern mo ...

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

García Jofre de Loaísa García or Garcia may refer to: People * García (surname) * Kings of Pamplona/Navarre ** García Íñiguez of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 851/2–882 ** García Sánchez I of Pamplona, king of Pamplona 931–970 ** García Sánchez II of Pam ...

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

Easter Island Easter Island ( rap, Rapa Nui; es, Isla de Pascua) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is most famous for its nearl ...

Polynesia Polynesia () "many" and νῆσος () "island"), to, Polinisia; mi, Porinihia; haw, Polenekia; fj, Polinisia; sm, Polenisia; rar, Porinetia; ty, Pōrīnetia; tvl, Polenisia; tkl, Polenihia (, ) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of ...

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

Ikegusuku Antō , also known by his Chinese style name , was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Biography Ikegusuku Antō was the second head of an aristocrat family called '' Mō-uji Ikegusuku Dunchi'' (). His father was Aragusuku Anki. Antō served as a me ...

East China Sea The East China Sea is an arm of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. It covers an area of roughly . The sea’s northern extension between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula is the Yellow Sea, separated b ...

Ryukyu Kingdom The Ryukyu Kingdom, Middle Chinese: , , Classical Chinese: (), Historical English names: ''Lew Chew'', ''Lewchew'', ''Luchu'', and ''Loochoo'', Historical French name: ''Liou-tchou'', Historical Dutch name: ''Lioe-kioe'' was a kingdom in the ...

Henry Hudson Henry Hudson ( 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States. In 1607 and 160 ...

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...

wintering Winter is the coldest season of the year in polar and temperate climates. It occurs after autumn and before spring. The tilt of Earth's axis causes seasons; winter occurs when a hemisphere is oriented away from the Sun. Different cultures ...

James Bay James Bay (french: Baie James; cr, ᐐᓂᐯᒄ, Wînipekw, dirty water) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. Both bodies of water extend from the Arctic Ocean, of which James Bay is the southernmost par ...

mutinied Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or overthrow an organization to which they were previously loyal. The term is commonly used for a rebellion among members ...

Satsuma Domain The , briefly known as the , was a domain (''han'') of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1602 to 1871. The Satsuma Domain was based at Kagoshima Castle in Satsuma Province, the core of the modern city of Kagoshima, ...

Sanshikan The ''Sanshikan'' (), or Council of Three, was a government body of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, which originally developed out of a council of regents. It emerged in 1556, when the young Shō Gen, who was mute, ascended to the throne of Ryūkyū. The c ...

Satsuma Satsuma may refer to: * Satsuma (fruit), a citrus fruit * ''Satsuma'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails Places Japan * Satsuma, Kagoshima, a Japanese town * Satsuma District, Kagoshima, a district in Kagoshima Prefecture * Satsuma Domain, a sou ...

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

pirate Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

Fish-man The fish-man of Liérganes ( Cantabrian: ''L'hombri pez'' or es, El hombre pez) is an entity of the mythology of Cantabria, located in the north of Spain. The fish-man would be an amphibian human-looking being, who looked a lot like a metamor ...

Liérganes Liérganes is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. According to the 2007 census, the city has a population of 2,391 inhabitants. Towns *Bucarrero *Calgar *Casa del Monte *El Condado, Cantabria, El Condado *La Co ...

Estuary of Bilbao The Estuary of Bilbao (Spanish: ''Ría de Bilbao'' / Basque: ''Bilboko Itsasadarra'') lies at the common mouth of the rivers Nervion, Ibaizabal and Cadagua, which drain most of Biscay and part of Alava in the Basque Country, Spain. In this inst ...

Michel de Grammont Michel de Grammont (c. 1645 – 1686?) was a French privateer. He was born in Paris, Kingdom of France and was lost at sea in the north-east Caribbean, April 1686. His privateer career lasted from around 1670 to 1686 during which he commanded th ...

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

privateer A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or deleg ...

Nicolas Brigaut Nicolas Brigaut (1653–1686) was a French pirate and buccaneer active in the Caribbean. He was closely associated with fellow corsair Michel de Grammont. History Brigaut first went to sea in 1679, surviving a shipwreck before joining the ''flib ...

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

Brethren of the Coast The Brethren or Brethren of the Coast were a loose coalition of pirates and privateers commonly known as buccaneers that were active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. They we ...

Spanish Main During the Spanish colonization of America, the Spanish Main was the collective term for the parts of the Spanish Empire that were on the mainland of the Americas and had coastlines on the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico. The term was used to di ...

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

pirate Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...

Batavia Batavia may refer to: Historical places * Batavia (region), a land inhabited by the Batavian people during the Roman Empire, today part of the Netherlands * Batavia, Dutch East Indies, present-day Jakarta, the former capital of the Dutch East In ...

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

precious metal Precious metals are rare, naturally occurring metallic chemical elements of high economic value. Chemically, the precious metals tend to be less reactive than most elements (see noble metal). They are usually ductile and have a high lustre. ...

guilder Guilder is the English translation of the Dutch and German ''gulden'', originally shortened from Middle High German ''guldin pfenninc'' "gold penny". This was the term that became current in the southern and western parts of the Holy Roman Empir ...

Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

Rhode Island Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...

Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda PC (I) (1701 – 28 October 1758) was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Background Moore was the second son of Charles Moore, Lord Moore, son of Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda, and Jane Loftus, ...

Irish Sea The Irish Sea or , gv, Y Keayn Yernagh, sco, Erse Sie, gd, Muir Èireann , Ulster-Scots: ''Airish Sea'', cy, Môr Iwerddon . is an extensive body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Ce ...

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

John Stanwix John Stanwix (born about 1690, England; died at sea, 29 October 1766) was a British soldier and politician. Background He was born John Roos, the son of Rev. John Roos, rector of Widmerpool, Nottinghamshire. In 1725 he succeeded to the estates ...

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

packet boat Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation in European countries and in North American rivers and canals, some of them steam driven. They were used extensively during the 18th and 19th ...

Henry Vansittart Henry Vansittart (3 June 1732 – 1770) was an English colonial administrator, who was the Governor of Bengal from 1759 to 1764. Life Vansittart was born in Bloomsbury in Middlesex, the third son of Arthur van Sittart (1691–1760), and his w ...

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

frigate A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

Mozambique Channel The Mozambique Channel (french: Canal du Mozambique, mg, Lakandranon'i Mozambika, pt, Canal de Moçambique) is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between the Southeast African countries of Madagascar and Mozambique. The channel is about lon ...

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

Thomas Lynch Jr. Thomas Lynch Jr. (August 5, 1749 – December 17, 1779) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina and a Founding Father of the United States. His father was a member of the Continent ...

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

United States Declaration of Independence The United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America, is the pronouncement and founding document adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Pennsylvania State House ...

Sint Eustatius Sint Eustatius (, ), also known locally as Statia (), is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality (officially " public body") of the Netherlands. The island lies in the northern Leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, so ...

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...

Continental Army The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies (the Thirteen Colonies) in the Revolutionary-era United States. It was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, and was establis ...

Adjutant General An adjutant general is a military chief administrative officer. France In Revolutionary France, the was a senior staff officer, effectively an assistant to a general officer. It was a special position for lieutenant-colonels and colonels in staf ...

William Palfrey William Palfrey (1741–1780) was an American Patriot. Early life William Palfrey was born February 24, 1741 in Boston, Massachusetts. Freemasonry In 1769, Palfrey was Substitute Master of the Lodge of St Andrew, a masonic lodge warranted by ...

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

Patriot A patriot is a person with the quality of patriotism. Patriot may also refer to: Political and military groups United States * Patriot (American Revolution), those who supported the cause of independence in the American Revolution * Patriot m ...

Saint Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...

John Young John Young may refer to: Academics * John Young (professor of Greek) (died 1820), Scottish professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow * John C. Young (college president) (1803–1857), American educator, pastor, and president of Centre Col ...

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

Continental Navy The Continental Navy was the navy of the United States during the American Revolutionary War and was founded October 13, 1775. The fleet cumulatively became relatively substantial through the efforts of the Continental Navy's patron John Adams ...

gale A gale is a strong wind; the word is typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts. The U.S. National Weather Service defines a gale as sustained surface winds moving at a speed of between 34 and 47 knots (, or ).Jean-François de Galaup (Lapérouse) and his expedition , style="text-align:center;" , 46–47 (Galaup) ,

Botany Bay Botany Bay (Dharawal: ''Kamay''), an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, south of the Sydney central business district. Its source is the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and the Cook ...

, Australia , The French expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse, disappeared after their last stop at

Botany Bay Botany Bay (Dharawal: ''Kamay''), an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, south of the Sydney central business district. Its source is the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and the Cook ...

(now Sydney), after meeting ships of Britain's

First Fleet The First Fleet was a fleet of 11 ships that brought the first European and African settlers to Australia. It was made up of two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports. On 13 May 1787 the fleet under the command ...

bringing convicts to establish the new settlement that became Australia. The wrecks of the expedition's two ships, the Boussole and Astrolabe), were subsequently discovered by Dumont-D'Urville during his 2nd trip around the world at

Vanikoro Vanikoro (sometimes wrongly named ''Vanikolo'') is an island in the Santa Cruz group, located to the Southeast of the main Santa Cruz group. It is part of the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands. The name ''Vanikoro'' is always used as thoug ...

, an island in the Santa Cruz group (part of the

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita ...

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Aimée du Buc de Rivéry Aimée, often unaccented as Aimee, is a feminine given name of French origin, translated as "beloved". The masculine form is Aimé. The English equivalent is Amy. It is also occasionally a surname. It may refer to: Given name Aimée * Aimée ...

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Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

, Rivéry, a French heiress, vanished at sea while returning home to

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in th ...

from the mainland. A popular legend suggests that she was abducted by pirates and sold as a concubine to the Ottoman Sultan under the name

Nakşidil Sultan ota, نقش دل سلطان , birth_name = , birth_date = 1761 , birth_place = Georgia , death_date = 28 July 1817 (aged 55-56) (Even though her date date was given as August 22nd 1817 in some sources, this information is incorrect, ...

, but this has never been proven. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1794" , 1794 , Robert Manners Sutton , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, Captain Robert Manners Sutton disappeared with the rest of the crew of the ''

HMS Ardent Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Ardent'', whilst another two were planned: * was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1764. She was captured by the French in 1779, but was recaptured in 1782 and renamed HMS ''Tiger''. She was sol ...

'' in 1794, believed lost to a fire and explosion. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1797-01-31" , 31 January 1797 , William Mulso , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , Location unknown , Commander William Mulso disappeared with the rest of the crew of the '' HMS Hermes'' on 31 January 1797, presumably foundered during a gale. , style="text-align:center;" , {{sfnp, Winfield, 2008, p=290{{sfnp, Hepper, 1994, p=83 , - , data-sort-value="1799-12-19" , 19 December 1799 or after , Thomas Atkinson , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Captain Atkinson disappeared with the rest of the crew of the '' Mildred'' on or after 19 December 1799, while sailing from

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1800-08-01" , c. September 1800 , Patrick Fletcher , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...

, Fletcher was in command of the USS ''

Insurgent An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion against authority waged by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare from primarily rural base areas. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric warfare, asymmetric na ...

'' when it disappeared near the West Indies in 1800. A severe storm struck the West Indies on 20 September, and it is thought to have caused the loss as well as that of the '' Pickering''. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1800-08-01" , c. September 1800 ,

Joseph Ingraham Joseph Ingraham (1762–1800) was an American sailor and maritime fur trader who discovered several islands of the Marquesas Islands while on his way to trade along the west coast of North America. He was also a prisoner in the American Revolutio ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 37–38 ,

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...

, Ingraham, an American sailor and maritime fur trader credited with discovering several islands in the

Marquesas Islands The Marquesas Islands (; french: Îles Marquises or ' or '; Marquesan: ' ( North Marquesan) and ' ( South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in ...

territory as well as a three-year-long voyage across the world, disappeared while serving aboard the USS '' Pickering'' along with the rest of the crew, presumably lost in a

gale A gale is a strong wind; the word is typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts. The U.S. National Weather Service defines a gale as sustained surface winds moving at a speed of between 34 and 47 knots (, or ).Crew of the HMS ''Babet'' , style="text-align:center;" , Various ,

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

, The HMS ''Babet'' was a 20-gun

sixth-rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and ...

post ship Post ship was a designation used in the Royal Navy during the second half of the 18th century and the Napoleonic Wars to describe a ship of the sixth rate (see rating system of the Royal Navy) that was smaller than a frigate (in practice, carr ...

of the British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

. The vessel and her crew disappeared shortly after departing from Fort Royal Bay,

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in th ...

on 24 October 1800. She is believed to have foundered during a

tropical storm A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depend ...

. , style="text-align:center;" , {{sfnp, Grocott, 1997, p=122 , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1802" , c. 1802/1803 ,

George Roper George Roper (15 May 1934 – 1 July 2003) was an English comedian, best known for his appearances in the long-running UK television series '' The Comedians''. Early history He was born George Francis Furnival in Liverpool to a working-cla ...

, style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , rowspan="2" , Location unknown , rowspan="2" , The HCS ''Intrepid'', captained by George Roper, and HCS ''Comet'', captained by Lieutenant William Henry, were both sent by the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...

to search for what caused the loss of the ''Earl Talbot''. They reportedly made many discoveries relating to natural history and geography, and saw wreckage of other vessels on uninhabited islands, but found nothing further concerning ''Lord Eldon''. By 1803, they were recognized to have disappeared without a trace, and presumed to have foundered at sea. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , {{sfnp, Hackman, 2001, pp=102–3{{sfnp, Low, 1877, p=216{{sfnp, Low, 1877, p=210 , - , William Henry , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , data-sort-value="1803-02-05" , 5 February 1803 ,

George Bass George Bass (; 30 January 1771 – after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia. Early years Bass was born on 30 January 1771 at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, the son of a tenant farmer, George ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 32 ,

Port Jackson Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The harbour is an inlet of the Tasman Sea (p ...

, Australia , The British explorer of Australia set sail from

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

for South America and was never heard from again. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1804-12-01" , 1 December 1804 , James Tippett , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, ''Hawk'', under Tippet's command, and {{HMS, Boadicea, 1797, 2 were cruising in the English Channel when on 1 December ''Hawk'' set off in pursuit of a strange sail. She never reappeared. The Admiralty presumed that she had foundered and paid her off on 31 December 1804. , style="text-align:center;" , {{sfnp, Hepper, 1994, p=108 , - , data-sort-value="1807" , 1807 ,

James Hawes James Hawes is a British television director. He has worked in British television drama since the mid-1990s, and has also produced documentaries for British and American television networks. His work has ranged across high-end period pieces and ...

, style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, ''Moucheron'' disappeared in the eastern Mediterranean in early 1807, with some accounts specifying the

Dardanelles The Dardanelles (; tr, Çanakkale Boğazı, lit=Strait of Çanakkale, el, Δαρδανέλλια, translit=Dardanéllia), also known as the Strait of Gallipoli from the Gallipoli peninsula or from Classical Antiquity as the Hellespont (; ...

. As no trace of her or her crew was ever found, this is pure conjecture. The Royal Navy officially paid her off effective 7 June 1807. , style="text-align:center;" , {{sfnp, Winfield, 2008, p=287{{sfnp, Hepper, 1994, p=119 , - , data-sort-value="1807–09" , c. September 1807 , John Sedley , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , Unknown , The HMS Elizabeth disappeared without a trace, presumed to have foundered with all hands. , style="text-align:center;" , {{sfnp, Hepper, 1994, p=120 , - , data-sort-value="1808–11" , c. November 1808 , John Logan , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , Unknown , The Experiment, {{ship, , Glory, 1802 ship, 2, and {{ship, , Lord Nelson, East Indiaman, 2 parted company with the fleet in a gale between 20 and 23 November, at {{coord, 8, 30, S, 80, 00, E. None of the three vessels was ever heard of again. The EIC declared that the value of its cargo on ''Experiment'' was £5,592. , style="text-align:center;" , {{Sfnp, House of Commons, 1830, p=977{{Cite web, url=https://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=IAMS_VU2&search_scope=default_scope&docId=IAMS045-001114984&fn=permalink, title=Experiment (4), Ship – British Library, website=searcharchives.bl.uk{{Sfnp, House of Commons, 1830, p=977 , - , data-sort-value="1809-03-01" , March 1809 ,

Hay MacDowall Lt.-Gen. Hay MacDowall (died March 1809) was a Scottish officer in the British Army who was the sixth General Officer Commanding, Ceylon. He was appointed on 19 July 1799. He was succeeded by David Douglas Wemyss. Fort MacDowall in Matale was ...

, style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope ( af, Kaap die Goeie Hoop ) ;''Kaap'' in isolation: pt, Cabo da Boa Esperança is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is t ...

, South Africa , Scottish

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

officer MacDowall disappeared with the rest of the crew of the '' Lady Jane Dundas'' in March 1809, while sailing back home to England. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1809-03" , 13/14 March 1809 , John James Ridge , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

, ''Harrier'' was in company with her

sister ship A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship. Such vessels share a nearly identical hull and superstructure layout, similar size, and roughly comparable features and equipment. They often share a ...

{{HMS, Racehorse, 1806, 2, about {{convert, 1000, nmi from Rodrigues. ''Harrier'' fell behind and was never seen again. She was presumed to have foundered with all hands. , style="text-align:center;" , {{sfnp, Hepper, 1994, p=128 , - , data-sort-value="1809-02-01" , 27 August 1809 , J. Hill , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Captain J. Hill disappeared with the rest of the crew of the ''

Bellona Bellona may refer to: Places *Bellona, Campania, a ''comune'' in the Province of Caserta, Italy *Bellona Reef, a reef in New Caledonia *Bellona Island, an island in Rennell and Bellona Province, Solomon Islands Ships * HMS ''Bellona'' (1760), a 74 ...

'' in 1809, while sailing back home to

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

from

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1810-02-16" , 16 February 1810 or after , John Bader , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abe ...

, Bader, the commander of the ship ''

Active Active may refer to: Music * ''Active'' (album), a 1992 album by Casiopea * Active Records, a record label Ships * ''Active'' (ship), several commercial ships by that name * HMS ''Active'', the name of various ships of the British Royal ...

'', disappeared after landing a sealing party on the Open Bay Islands and subsequently setting sail for

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1813-01-02" , 2–3 January 1813 ,

Theodosia Burr Alston Theodosia Burr Alston (June 21, 1783 – January 2 or 3, 1813) was an American socialite and the daughter of the third U.S. Vice President, Aaron Burr, and Theodosia Bartow Prevost. Her husband, Joseph Alston, was governor of South Carolina dur ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 29 , Coast of

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, U.S. , The daughter of U.S. Vice President

Aaron Burr Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805. Burr's legacy is defined by his famous personal conflict with Alexand ...

, and sometimes called the most educated American woman of her day, sailed from Georgetown, South Carolina, aboard the ''Patriot'', which was never seen again. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1814-10-01" , c. October 1814 ,

Johnston Blakeley Johnston Blakeley also spelled Johnston Blakely (October 1781 – October 1814) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812. He is considered to be one of the most successful American naval offic ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 32–33 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Blakeley, an officer in the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

during the

Quasi-War The Quasi-War (french: Quasi-guerre) was an undeclared naval war fought from 1798 to 1800 between the United States and the French First Republic, primarily in the Caribbean and off the East Coast of the United States. The ability of Congress ...

with

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

and the

War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It bega ...

, was in command of the

sloop-of-war In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...

''

Wasp A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...

'' when it was lost in the Atlantic in October 1814. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1814-02-28" , 28 February 1814 , John Davies , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, ''Anacreon'' was last sighted on 28 February 1814 in the

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

as she was returning from Lisbon. Soon thereafter, she disappeared without trace in a storm. All aboard were lost. , style="text-align:center;", {{sfnp, Hepper, 1994, p=149 , - , data-sort-value="1815-07" , c. July/August 1815 , John Downes , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, After the Dey signed a

treaty A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, but can include international organizations An international organization or international o ...

, Decatur chose ''Epervier'', under Lieutenant John T. Shubrick, ''Guerriere''{{'s former

first lieutenant First lieutenant is a commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces; in some forces, it is an appointment. The rank of lieutenant has different meanings in different military formations, but in most forces it is sub-divided into a s ...

, to carry a copy of the treaty and some captured flags to the United States. Captain Lewis, and Lieutenants Neale and John Yarnall, came on board as passengers. ''Epervier'' sailed through the Straits of Gibraltar on 14 July 1815 and was never heard from again. Epervier may have encountered a hurricane reported in the Atlantic on 9 August 1815. In all, she was carrying 132 sailors and 2 marines. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1815-08" , c. August 1815 , D.Grierson , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , Unknown , On 2 August 1815 as ''Preston'' was sailing from Jamaica to London in a convoy she encountered a gale that cost her her main and mizzen masts. A later report stated that ''Preston'', Grierson, master, had been seen since the gale. The last report concerning the convoy of which ''Preston'' was one of the 89 vessels in the convoy that left Jamaica on 19 July, stated that ''Preston'', Grierson, master, was one of the eight still missing. , style="text-align:center;" , {{Cite journal, url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000549597, title=Lloyd's list., date=10 November 1741, pages=78 v., via=HathiTrust , - , data-sort-value="1816-07-01" , 8–17 January 1816 , Samuel Shaw , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Port Jackson Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The harbour is an inlet of the Tasman Sea (p ...

, Australia , The commander of the 90-ton

brig A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the ...

'' Amelia'', Shaw disappeared after departing from Port Jackson, Australia on the way to

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

and Canton,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, carrying 50 tons of

sandalwood Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus ''Santalum''. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and, unlike many other aromatic woods, they retain their fragrance for decades. Sandalwood oil is extracted from the woods for us ...

and 5 tons of coal. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1816-07-01" , July 1816 , George Winney , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abe ...

? , The commander of the ship ''

Whale Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and ...

'', Winney and two crew members disappeared in July 1816 after heading out of

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

bound for

Hawkesbury Hawkesbury or Hawksbury may refer to: People *Baron Hawkesbury, or Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1727-1808), English statesman Places ;Geography *Hawkesbury Island, an island in British Columbia, Canada * Hawkesbury Island, Queensland ...

. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1816 or 1817" , 1816/1817 , Jonathon Read , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , Location unknown , Captain Jonathon Read commanded ''Anna'' when it was lost at sea in 1816 or 1817. , style="text-align:center;" , {{sfnp, Bulley, 2000, pp=124–5{{sfnp, Hackman, 2001, p=222 , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1821-01-28" , 28 January 1821 , Obed Hendricks , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , rowspan="3",

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, rowspan="3", Sailors on the

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''

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

'', which sank in the Pacific on 20 November 1820 after being struck by a

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. Their whaleboat was separated on the open sea from their fellow crewmen on 28 January 1821; it was never seen again. Years later, a boat with three skeletons inside was discovered washed up on

Ducie Island Ducie Island is an uninhabited atoll in the Pitcairn Islands. It lies east of Pitcairn Island, and east of Henderson Island, and has a total area of , which includes the lagoon. It is long, measured northeast to southwest, and about wide. ...

, but the skeletons were not identified as being theirs. , rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , , - , William Bond , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , Joseph West , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , data-sort-value="1822-04-22" , 22 April 1822 ,

Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes Charles, comte Lefebvre-Desnouettes or Lefèbvre-Desnoëttes (14 September 1773, in Paris – 22 April 1822) became a French officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and a general during the Napoleonic Wars. He later emigrated to the Uni ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 49 , Off the coast of

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

, The French military officer and general during the

Napoleonic Wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

later fled to America to escape prosecution from the loyalists. He was allowed to return, but presumably died when his ship sank off the coast of Ireland. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1821-01-01" , c. 5 February 1823 ,

Jean Lafitte Jean Lafitte ( – ) was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte". Th ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 42 ,

Gulf of Honduras The Gulf or Bay of Honduras is a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. From north to south, it runs for approximately 200 km (125 miles) from Dangriga, Belize, to La Ceiba, Honduras. ...

, French pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte was granted a commission from the

Great Colombia Gran Colombia (, "Great Colombia"), or Greater Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: ''República de Colombia''), was a state that encompassed much of northern South America and part of southern Central America from 1819 to 18 ...

government to take Spanish ships in June 1822. He is thought to have died on 5 February 1823 while trying to take two Spanish merchant vessels in the Gulf of Honduras, but rumors abounded that he had a different fate. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1827-06-01" , June 1827 ,

Douglas Clavering Captain Douglas Charles Clavering RN FRS (8 September 1794 – mid-1827) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and Arctic explorer. Biography Early life and career Clavering was born at Holyrood House, the eldest son of Brigadier-General ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 32–33 , near

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

, Clavering, a British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

officer and Arctic explorer, served as a commander of HMS '' HMS Redwing (1806), Redwing'' when it disappeared near Sierra Leone with all hands, never to be seen again. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1831-04-01" , April 1831 , Carlo Giuseppe Bertero , style="text-align:center;" , 42 ,

South Pacific Ocean South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

, The Italian naturalist and botanist known for documenting the flora and fauna in the

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...

and South America presumably died in a shipwreck while on a voyage from Tahiti to Chile. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1835-07-17" , 17 July 1835 , Henry Hutton , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , Unknown , ''Forth'' departed from Manila on 17 July 1835 for London. She disappeared without a trace and was presumed to have foundered with the loss of all hands. , style="text-align:center;" , {{Cite newspaper The Times , title=Ship News , date=7 May 1836 , page=7 , issue=16097 , column=A {{sfnp, Hackman, 2001, p=277 , - , data-sort-value"1840-01-01" , 1840 , ''Rosalie'' , style="text-align:center;" , Various ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, The ''Rosalie'', a large French vessel, was found abandoned with sails set and cargo intact. Its crew had vanished. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1841-01-01" , 17 March 1841 , Richard Roberts , style="text-align:center;", 37–38 , rowspan="3" ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, rowspan="3" , Roberts was the captain of the SS ''President'' when it disappeared in a

gale A gale is a strong wind; the word is typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts. The U.S. National Weather Service defines a gale as sustained surface winds moving at a speed of between 34 and 47 knots (, or ).Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

from New York. Methodist clergyman Rev. George Grimston Cookman who served as the

Chaplain of the Senate The chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer, and provides and coordinates religious programs and pastoral care support for senators, their staffs, and their families. The chaplain is appoi ...

and Irish comic actor Tyrone Power were among the passengers who were lost. , rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , , - , George Grimston Cookman , style="text-align:center;", 40 , - ,

Tyrone Power Tyrone Edmund Power III (May 5, 1914 – November 15, 1958) was an American actor. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power appeared in dozens of films, often in swashbuckler roles or romantic leads. His better-known films include ''Jesse James'', ' ...

, style="text-align:center;", 43 , - , data-sort-value="1845-07-01" , July 1845 ,

Franklin's lost expedition Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, and , and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sect ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 59 (Franklin) ,

Victoria Strait Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean. It is between Victoria Island (Canada), Victoria Island to the west and King William Island to the east. From the north, the strait links the ...

, The expedition led by Sir

John Franklin Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through ...

, with 129 seamen, made last contact with a whaling ship before entering

Victoria Strait Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean. It is between Victoria Island (Canada), Victoria Island to the west and King William Island to the east. From the north, the strait links the ...

in search of the

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...

. The remains of some individuals, written messages and the wrecks of the ships HMS ''Erebus'' (in 2014) and HMS ''Terror'' (in 2016) were later discovered. However, the majority of the crew, including Franklin himself, were never found, with the crew having probably died from a combination of lead poisoning, starvation, and exposure. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1847-04-26" , 26 April 1847 ,

Francis Crozier Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (17 October 1796 – disappeared 26 April 1848) was an Irish officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in six expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. In May 1845, he was second-in-comman ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 54 , Unknown , Unverified

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

reports collected between 1852 and 1858 indicate that Crozier and one other expedition member might have been seen in the Baker Lake area, about {{convert, 400, km to the south, where, in 1948,

Farley Mowat Farley McGill Mowat, (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Can ...

found "a very ancient cairn, not of normal Eskimo construction," inside which were fragments of a hardwood box with dovetail joints. McClintock and later searchers found relics, graves, and human remains of the Franklin crew on

Beechey Island Beechey Island ( iu, Iluvialuit, script=Latn) is an island located in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada, in Wellington Channel. It is separated from the southwest corner of Devon Island by Barrow Strait. Other features include Wellington C ...

, King William Island, and the northern coast of the Canadian mainland. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1847-05-24" , 24 May 1847 , James Walter Fairholme , style="text-align:center;" , 26 , Unknown , On 31 March 1854 the Admiralty removed the name of Sir

John Franklin Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through ...

and his officers and men from their books, presuming that they all had perished, and arrangements were made to distribute the back-dated pay to their dependents. Fairholme was declared legally dead in 1858 after the case of Fairholme v Fairholme in Scotland, in a legal dispute concerning a large sum of money left to Fairholme by his uncle, Adam Fairholme, who died in 1853. The case hinged on whether James Fairholme had predeceased his uncle, or had died after him. The Court's judgement, based on evidence produced by Captain John Rae, among others, was that Lt. Fairholme had died before 1853 and therefore could not have survived his uncle. , style="text-align:center;", , - , 1848 ,

Harry Goodsir Henry ″Harry″ Duncan Spens Goodsir (3 November 1819 – ) was a Scottish physician and naturalist who contributed to the pioneering work on cell theory done by his brother John Goodsir. He served as surgeon and naturalist on the ill-fat ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 28–29 , King William Island, Canada , Harry Goodsir was a Scottish naturalist and physician who disappeared in 1848 on King William Island while aboard

Franklin's lost expedition Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, and , and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sect ...

. Years later a skeleton was found that showed a likeness to him, yet it is unknown for certain if these were his remains. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1848-04-26" , 26 April 1848 ,

James Fitzjames James Fitzjames (27 July 1813 – disappeared 26 April 1848) was a British Royal Navy officer who participated in two major exploratory expeditions, the Euphrates Expedition and the Franklin Expedition. Early life He was of illegitima ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 34 ,

Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ...

, Canada , Fitzjames, a British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

officer who became one of the central figures of

Franklin's lost expedition Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, and , and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sect ...

, captaining HMS ''Erebus'', survived the initial disaster and attempted to sail back to the Canadian coast, but all definitive trace of him was lost after this point. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , 1849 ,

Harry Peglar Henry "Harry" Peter Peglar (22 February 1812 – c. 1849) was an English seaman who served in the Royal Navy. He served as Captain of the Foretop, a Petty officer, Petty Officer rank, on HMS Terror (1813), HMS ''Terror'' during the Franklin's ...

, style="text-align:center;" , c. 36 , King William Island, Canada , Peglar served aboard the HMS ''Terror'' during the 1845 Franklin Expedition. He is believed to have died several months after the two vessels became icebound in the

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...

. Although his remains, if found, were never identified, several of his personal effects were later found with a skeleton by explorer

Leopold McClintock Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (8 July 1819 – 17 November 1907) was an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy, known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. He confirmed explorer John Rae's controversial report gather ...

. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1849-10-07" , 7 October 1849 , Francisque Arban , style="text-align:center;" , 34 ,

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, Arban was a French balloonist renowned as the first person to cross the

Alps The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Sw ...

in a balloon. On 7 October 1849, he took on a flight from

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

but was blown over to the Mediterranean Sea, where he disappeared and is thought to have died. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1852-05-17" , 17 May 1852 ,

Sir Montagu Chapman, 3rd Baronet Sir Montagu Lowther Chapman (19 December 1808 – 17 May 1852) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and Member of Parliament (MP). He was born at Killua Castle, Westmeath, the son of Sir Thomas Chapman, 2nd Baronet and educated at Trinity College, D ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 51 ,

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abe ...

, The

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...

landowner and

High Sheriff of Westmeath The High Sheriff of Westmeath was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Westmeath, Ireland from its creation under The Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act 1543 until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and ...

in 1844 disappeared while sailing from

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

to

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

, Australia. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1854-09" , 28 or 29 September 1854 , James Thompson Gerry , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

, As of 30 June 1854, the crew of ''Albany'' consisted of 18 officers, 156 seaman, and 23 Marines. It is likely the ship's complement was little changed when she was lost three months later. The crew included several sons and grandsons of prominent men: Commander James T. Gerry, youngest son of Elbridge Gerry, formerly

Vice President of the United States The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice ...

, Lieutenant John Quincy Adams, grandson of the second president and nephew of the sixth, and Midshipman Bennet Israel Riley, son of

Brevet Brevet may refer to: Military * Brevet (military), higher rank that rewards merit or gallantry, but without higher pay * Brevet d'état-major, a military distinction in France and Belgium awarded to officers passing military staff college * Aircre ...

General Bennet C. Riley, the former military governor of California during its statehood

controversy Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. The word was coined from the Latin ''controversia'', as a composite of ''controversus'' – "turned in an opposite d ...

. , style="text-align:center;" , The Weekly Herald (New York, New York), Saturday, December 09, 1854; Issue 49.''Navy Casualty Reports, 1776–1941'', Lost and Wrecked Ships, Explosions and Steam Casualties
p. 5
Fold3 12-003. Accessed 3 November 2015. {{Subscription , - , rowspan="2" , 23 January 1856 ,

Asa Eldridge Asa Eldridge (1809–1856) was a sea captain from Yarmouth, Massachusetts. In 1854, Captain Eldridge guided the clipper ship ''Red Jacket'' from New York and to Liverpool in only in 13 days, 1 hour, and 25 minutes, dock to dock, setting a sp ...

, style="text-align:center;", 47 , rowspan="2" ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, rowspan="2" , Eldridge was the commander of the '' SS Pacific'' when it disappeared under mysterious circumstances while sailing to New York from

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

. The Bishop of Hartford Bernard O'Reilly, who was returning from a trip to Europe, was among those lost. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;", , - , Bernard O'Reilly , style="text-align:center;", 52 , - , data-sort-value="1867-03-01" , March 1867 ,

Trevarton Charles Sholl Trevarton Charles Sholl (7 July 1845 – March 1867) was an explorer of North-West Australia and government official. During the 1860s, he undertook expeditions to the regions known later as the Kimberley and Pilbara. In March 1867, at the age o ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 22 ,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

, Sholl, a government official and explorer, was lost at sea when the schooner ''Emma'' disappeared during a storm. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1872-12-04" , 4 December 1872 , Captain

Benjamin Briggs Benjamin Spooner Briggs (April 24, 1835 – likely November 1872) was an experienced United States seaman and master mariner. He was the Captain of the merchant ship ''Mary Celeste,'' which was discovered unmanned and drifting in the Atlantic Oc ...

and crew , style="text-align:center;" , 37 , rowspan="3",

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

near

Azores ) , motto =( en, "Rather die free than subjected in peace") , anthem= ( en, "Anthem of the Azores") , image_map=Locator_map_of_Azores_in_EU.svg , map_alt=Location of the Azores within the European Union , map_caption=Location of the Azores wi ...

, rowspan="3", Briggs, his wife Sarah, their daughter Sophia, and all seven crew members were missing when the ''

Mary Celeste ''Mary Celeste'' (; often erroneously referred to as Marie Celeste) was an American-registered merchant brigantine, best known for being discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores Islands on December 4, 1872. The Cana ...

'' was found adrift in choppy seas some {{convert, 400, mi east of the

Azores ) , motto =( en, "Rather die free than subjected in peace") , anthem= ( en, "Anthem of the Azores") , image_map=Locator_map_of_Azores_in_EU.svg , map_alt=Location of the Azores within the European Union , map_caption=Location of the Azores wi ...

. Their unexplained disappearances are at the core of "one of the most durable mysteries in nautical history". , rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Sarah Elizabeth Briggs , style="text-align:center;" , 31 , - , Sophia Matilda Briggs , style="text-align:center;" , 2 , - , - , - , data-sort-value="1880-01-01" , c. 14 February 1880 , Crew of the HMS ''Juno'' , style="text-align:center;" , Various ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, HMS ''Juno'' disappeared while sailing from Royal Naval Dockyard in

Bermuda ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = National song , song = " Hail to Bermuda" , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , mapsize2 = , map_caption2 = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = , e ...

en route to Falmouth,

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

on 31 January 1880. The vessel is presumed to have sunk in a storm sometime between 12 and 16 February. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1880-10-10" , 10 October 1880 ,

Lamont Young Lamont H. Young (1851–1880) was an Australian assistant geological surveyor for the New South Wales Mines Department. He mysteriously disappeared while on field-work at Bermagui, New South Wales. Disappearance Young was inspecting the new g ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 28–29 , Bermagui, Australia , Young, a government geologist inspecting new gold fields on behalf of the New South Wales Mines Department, together with his assistant Max Schneider, boat owner Thomas Towers and two other men disappeared after leaving

Bermagui, New South Wales Bermagui is a town on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia in the Bega Valley Shire. It lies on the shores of the southern end of Horseshoe Bay. The name is derived from the Dyirringanj word, ''permageua'', possibly meaning "canoe with ...

, Australia in a small boat. The nearby location where the abandoned wreck of their boat was discovered was subsequently named Mystery Bay. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1881-03-25" , 25 March 1881 ,

John Bristow Hughes J. B. Hughes (John Bristow Hughes; July 1817 – 25 March 1881) was a grazier, developer and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. Life Born in Kentish Town, London, in July. 1817, he was employed at the age of 13 ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 64 ,

Hobson's Bay The City of Hobsons Bay is a local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the south-western suburbs between 6 and 20 km from the Melbourne city centre. It was founded on 22 June 1994 during the amalgamation of l ...

, Australia , Hughes, an English-Australian grazier and politician of the

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

n colony, is thought to have drowned on vacation while swimming, but his body was never recovered. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1881-09-12" , 12 September 1881 ,

Charles W. Chipp Charles Winans Chipp (August 23, 1848 – ) was a United States Navy officer and explorer.Burnett, Charles E. (1933). ''The Chipp Family in England and America, With Genealogical Tree''. Los Angeles: United Printing Company. pp. 49– ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 33 ,

Laptev Sea The Laptev Sea ( rus, мо́ре Ла́птевых, r=more Laptevykh; sah, Лаптевтар байҕаллара, translit=Laptevtar baỹğallara) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, th ...

, Chipp, an American naval officer and explorer, took part in the Jeannette expedition, which aimed to discover a route from the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

to the Bering Strait. The ship became crushed and sank in June 1881. After a long trek across the ice to the water, the crew set out in three small boats, but later became separated in a storm. The boat that Chipp was commanding was never seen again. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1881-12-10" , 10 December 1881 , Walter Powell , style="text-align:center;" , 39 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, Walter Powell, a Welsh politician member of the

Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...

party member in the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. ...

in between 1868 and 1881 as well as a colliery owner, disappeared in a balloon over the

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

on 10 December 1881 and was never seen again. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1884-08-29" , 29 August 1884 , ''

Resolven Resolven ( cy, Resolfen) is a small village and community in Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales. It is located in the Vale of Neath. Location The village is situated in the Vale of Neath, north east of the town of Neath, next to the A465 ...

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Labrador , nickname = "The Big Land" , etymology = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Canada , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 ...

, Canada , The merchant ship ''Resolven'' was found abandoned off the coast of

Labrador , nickname = "The Big Land" , etymology = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Canada , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 ...

on 29 August. A lifeboat was missing and it was assumed that all 11 on board had evacuated in the face of nearby icebergs, but neither they nor the lifeboat were ever found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1886-07-22" , 22 July 1886 ,

James Henry Van Alen James Henry Van Alen (August 17, 1819 – July 22, 1886) was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Early life James Henry Van Alen was born in 1819, in Kinderhook, New York. He was the only son of James I. Van Ale ...

, style="text-align:center;" , 66 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, A

Union Army During the American Civil War, the Union Army, also known as the Federal Army and the Northern Army, referring to the United States Army, was the land force that fought to preserve the Union (American Civil War), Union of the collective U.S. st ...

Brigadier general (United States), brigadier general, Van Alen either fell or jumped into the sea while on board the RMS ''RMS Umbria, Umbria'', while returning home from a trip to England. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1889-09-29" , 29 September 1889 , William Jackson (New Zealand politician), William Jackson , style="text-align:center;" , 56 ,

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abe ...

, Jackson, an English-born New Zealand Member of Parliament who represented the Waikato region from 1872 to 1875, went missing while travelling on board the SS ''Rotorua''. It is presumed he became sick and fell overboard. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1890-07-12" , 12 July 1890 , Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria , style="text-align:center;" , 37 , Cape Horn, Chile (presumed) , A member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine who renounced his royal titles and went on to live as a sailor, Salvator and his wife were presumably killed when their ship was sunk during a storm in Cape Horn, but other theories have been proposed that Salvator instead assumed a new identity and lived the rest of his days in South America. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1892-03-13", 13 March 1892 , Hermann Fol , style="text-align:center;" , 46 , Bénodet, France , Fol, a Swiss zoologist regarded as the father of modern cell biology, disappeared with several crew members of his yacht shortly after leaving Bénodet, France. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1902-10-26", 26 October 1902 , Eduard von Toll , 44 , East Siberian Sea , A group of Russian explorers led by Baron Eduard von Toll left Bennett Island in Siberia and were never seen again. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1903-11-16", On or After 16 November 1903 , Loch Bredan (barque), Thomas Williams , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

, In early 1904 speculation and concern about the missing ship appeared in the press.< She was never heard from again and no scrap of wreckage was ever found. The crew consisted of :— Thomas Williams (master), J. M. Scott (first mate), G. Howell (second mate), J. A. Gibbons (carpenter), C. L. Williams (sailmaker), W. Williams (cook and steward), A. Gaerkens, H. Skinner, D. Friel, T. Williams, T. T. Gunn, J. L. James, G. Hartfield, L. J. Monoghan, C. Burns, S.Thomas (boy). The captain's wife (Mrs. Williams) was also on the articles as stewardess. Five men: N. M. McKcnzie, F. Bucknall. R. Leppar, C. Nelson, joined the vessel at Port Adelaide. F. Bucknall was the son of Frederick Estcourt Bucknall, a former parliamentarian, brewer and real estate developer who lost his fortune in a recent recession. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1909-07-26", 27 July 1909 , SS Waratah, ''Waratah'' , style="text-align:center;" , Various , Mbhashe River, Colony of Natal , The ''SS Waratah'', a 500-foot cargo liner, passenger and cargo steamship built in 1908 by the Blue Anchor Line to operate between Europe and Australia, disappeared on her second voyage from Durban to Cape Town with 211 passengers and crew aboard. The last confirmed sighting of her was by a fellow steamer on 27 July, and her ultimate fate remains unknown. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1909-11-14" , 14 November 1909 , Joshua Slocum , style="text-align:center;" , 65 , Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S. , Slocum, a Canadian-American sailor and first man to Single-handed sailing, sail single-handedly around the world (1895–1898), disappeared after setting sail from Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard alone, bound for South America, aboard the same {{cvt, 36, ft, 9, in sloop ''Spray (sailing vessel), Spray'' he had used for his circumnavigation. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1910-12-22" , 22 December 1910 , Cecil Grace , style="text-align:center;" , 30 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, Pioneer aviator Grace disappeared over the English Channel on 22 December 1910 while returning to RAF Eastchurch, Eastchurch via Dover from Calais after having gone there to attempt to win the Maurice de Forest, Baron de Forest Prize, but deciding not to due to strong winds. His pilot's goggles and cap were recovered on 6 January 1911, and his body was possibly found on 14 March 1911, but was too badly disfigured to be identifiable. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1911-06-05" , 5 June 1911 , Édouard Bague , style="text-align:center;" , 32 ,

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, Bague, a former lieutenant in the Tirailleur, Algerian tirailleurs and aviator, disappeared while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea without a compass. Several expeditions to locate the plane or Bague's remains were made, but no trace was ever found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1912-04-18" , 18 April 1912 , Damer Leslie Allen , style="text-align:center;" , 34 ,

Irish Sea The Irish Sea or , gv, Y Keayn Yernagh, sco, Erse Sie, gd, Muir Èireann , Ulster-Scots: ''Airish Sea'', cy, Môr Iwerddon . is an extensive body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Ce ...

, Allen, an Irish-born British aviator, disappeared on 18 April 1912 while attempting to fly solo from Holyhead,

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

, to Ireland in a Blériot Aéronautique, Blériot monoplane. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1912-01-01" , c. 1913 , Vladimir Rusanov , style="text-align:center;", 38 , rowspan="2" , Kara Sea , rowspan="2", Rusanov, a Russian geologist and Arctic explorer, led Rusanov expedition, an expedition with the initial goal of establishing mineral claims on Spitsbergen, but later expanded to include investigating the Northeast Passage. They sailed in the ''Hercules'' captained by Alexander Kuchin. The expedition was last heard from in August 1912, when Rusanov sent a message stating that he was continuing east, before disappearing a year later in the Kara Sea. Artefacts found decades later show that they managed to cross that sea. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Alexander Kuchin , style="text-align:center;", 24 , - , data-sort-value="1913-10-13" , 13 October 1913 , Albert Jewell , style="text-align:center;" , 27 , Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean , Jewell, an early US aviator, disappeared off Long Island, New York, on 13 October 1913, en route to Oakwood, Staten Island, in order to take part in ''The New York Times'' American Aerial Derby. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1914-05-23" , 23 May 1914 , Gustav Hamel , style="text-align:center;" , 24–25 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, Hamel, a British aviation pioneer who was most prominent for developing and promoting flying in Hendon Aerodrome, disappeared over the English Channel while flying a new plane. In July, a fishing vessel saw a body floating in the ocean, which, although they didn't retrieve it, was believed to be Hamel's. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1914-08-18" , 18/19 August 1914 , Albert Johan Petersson , style="text-align:center;" , 44 , Bergen , Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist Albert Petersson disappeared during a boat trip from Odda, Norway to Bergen. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1914-12-03" , 3 December 1914 , Harald Kristian Dannevig , style="text-align:center;" , 43 , Macquarie Island , Dannevig, a Norwegian-born Australian superintendent of fisheries for New South Wales, disappeared during an investigation on 3 December 1914. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1916-09" , c. September 1916 , Bremen (German submarine), Karl Schwartzkopf , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, ''Bremen'' departed Bremerhaven in September 1916 for Norfolk, Virginia, commanded by ''Kapitänleutnant'' Karl Schwartzkopf, and reportedly carrying financial credits for Simon Lake to begin building cargo submarines for Germany. It did not complete this voyage and Bremen's fate is a mystery. Several views have been put forth as to the nature of her fate. German U-boat SM U-53, ''U-53'' had been assigned to join ''Bremen'' as protection against British attacks but failed to make contact. Its commander Hans Rose reported having heard a radio broadcast on 28 September 1916 stating that ''Bremen'' had been sunk. , style="text-align:center;" , {{Cite book , last1=Polmar , first1=Norman , last2=Moore , first2=Kenneth J , title=Cold War Submarines , publisher=Brassey's , year=2004 , isbn=1-57488-594-4 , pages=225 , - , data-sort-value="1917-04-15" , 15 April 1917 , Marc Armand Ruffer , style="text-align:center;" , 57 , Aegean Sea , Ruffer was a Swiss-born British experimental pathology, experimental pathologist and bacteriologist, who is considered a pioneer of modern paleopathology. On 15 April 1917 while travelling to Egypt aboard the {{SS, Arcadian, which was sunk by a U-boat, He was last seen two times floating in the sea, first upright and alive and then in a different position, as he is believed to have died, and then disappeared and was not seen again. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1918-02-13" , 13 February 1918 , French submarine Bernoulli#Service history, René Audry (Commander & 22 crew) , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , Unknown , ''French submarine Bernoulli, Bernoulli''{{'s final patrol was in February 1918, on close blockade duty off Cattaro. The submarine was not heard from after 13 February 1918 and is believed to have struck a mine off Cattaro and sunk. All 23 of her crew were lost. Her commander, Rene Audry, was honoured by having French submarine René Audry (E10), a submarine named after him. , style="text-align:center;" , Conway p209-10 , - , data-sort-value="1918-10-01" , c. November 1918 , Arthur Cravan , style="text-align:center;" , 33 , Salina Cruz, Mexico , Swiss writer, poet, artist and boxer Arthur Cravan was last seen in Salina Cruz, Mexico around November 1918. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1919-01-01" , c. 1919 , Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, Paul Knutsen , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , Cape Chelyuskin , A Norwegian seaman who accompanied explorer Roald Amundsen on an expedition to the Arctic, but were left behind due to his companion Peter Tessem having chronic headaches, rendering him unable to survive the journey back home. They were instructed to wait for the freeze-up and travel towards Dikson (urban-type settlement), Dikson when the opportunity arises, but both disappeared along the way. Tessem's body was found and buried several years later, while Knutsen's was never located. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1919-10-26" , 26 October 1919 , ''Marie Empress'' , style="text-align:center;" , 35 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Empress, a British silent film actress, was last seen in Stateroom 480 on the SS Orduña, SS ''Orduña'' the night before its arrival in New York City. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1920-02-21" , 21 February 1920 , Croye Pithey , style="text-align:center;" , 24 ,

Irish Sea The Irish Sea or , gv, Y Keayn Yernagh, sco, Erse Sie, gd, Muir Èireann , Ulster-Scots: ''Airish Sea'', cy, Môr Iwerddon . is an extensive body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Ce ...

, Pithey, a South African flying ace and balloon buster, crashlanded while conducting a ferry operation. Neither his remains nor plane were ever recovered. , style="text-align:center;" , {{better source needed, date=December 2021, reason=theaerodrome.com is considered generally unreliable , - , data-sort-value="1921-01-26" , 26 January 1921 , SS Hewitt, Hans Jakob Hansen , style="text-align:center;" , Various ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, ''Hewitt'' left fully loaded from Sabine Pass, Port Arthur, Texas on 20 January 1921. She was bound for Portland, Maine with a stop in Boston, Massachusetts. She made her regular radio calls on 24 January and 25 January, and reported nothing unusual. She was last seen {{convert, 250, nmi, km north of Jupiter Inlet, Florida. From that time to this, she remains missing. No further radio signals from her were received. After the ''Hewitt'' failed to arrive in Boston on its expected due date of 29 January, Union Sulphur sent the ship's wireless call (K I L) through Atlantic coastal stations, and notified the U.S. Navy. A huge search along her route found nothing. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite journal , date=June 1921 , author1-last=Southern , author1-first=David A. , editor1-last=Clark , editor1-first=Grenville , title=The Mystery Ship: Tragedy of the S.S. Hewitt and Other Ill-Fated Vessels , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fJnlAAAAMAAJ&q=SS+Hewitt+1921&pg=PA323 , journal=National Service , location=New York , publisher=Military Training Publishing Corporation , volume=9 , issue=6 , pages=323–327 , access-date=18 September 2015 , - , data-sort-value="1921-01-31" , 31 January 1921 , ''Carroll A. Deering'' , style="text-align:center;" , Various , Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, U.S. , The captain and ten crewmen of the schooner ''Carroll A. Deering'' were missing when the schooner was found run aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on 31 January 1921. A mutiny was suspected, but the reason for their disappearance has never been established. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1921-11-26" , 26 November 1921 , Charles W. Whittlesey, Charles Whittlesey , style="text-align:center;" , 37 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, The American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who led the "Lost Battalion (World War I), Lost Battalion" in World War I was last seen on the evening of 26 November 1921 on a passenger ship bound from New York City to Havana. It is presumed he committed suicide by jumping overboard. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1922-09-20" , 20 September 1922 , Giuseppe Sartorio , style="text-align:center;" , 68 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Sartorio, an Italian sculptor, disappeared while travelling on board the steamer ''Tocra'', which was returning to Italy from Canada. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1927-05-08" , c. 8 May 1927 , Charles Nungesser , style="text-align:center;" , 31 , rowspan="2",

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, rowspan="2", Both French aviators disappeared with their Levasseur PL.8 ''L'Oiseau Blanc'' while attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , , - , François Coli , style="text-align:center;" , 45 , - , data-sort-value="1927-08-16" , 16 August 1927 , Mildred Doran , style="text-align:center;" , 22 ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, The Canadian aviation enthusiast and sole woman to participate in the Dole Air Race vanished at sea like several other competitors, and was never found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1927-08-18" , 18 August 1927 , William Portwood Erwin , style="text-align:center;" , 28 ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, Lt. Erwin was an American flying ace active during World War I, credited with eight aerial victories. He vanished while participating in the Dole Air Race spanning between Oakland, California and Hawaii, and is believed to drowned in the ocean. , style="text-align:center;" , {{better source needed, date=December 2021, reason=theaerodrome.com is considered generally unreliable , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1927-08-31" , 31 August 1927 , Frederick F. Minchin , style="text-align:center;" , 37 , rowspan="3" ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, rowspan="3" , Hamilton, a British flying ace credited with six aerial victories, pilot Minchin and the Princess disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean while attempting the first non-stop east-west flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The plane St. Raphael (aircraft), St. Raphael, owned by passenger Princess Anne, was last seen flying over the Atlantic by an oil tanker, and was never seen again , rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , {{better source needed, date=December 2021, reason=theaerodrome.com is considered generally unreliable , - , Leslie Hamilton , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , Princess Anne of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , style="text-align:center;" , 63 , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1927-09-06" , 6 September 1927 , James DeWitt Hill , style="text-align:center;" , 45 , rowspan="3",

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, rowspan="3", Hill and Bertaud were American aviators who disappeared aboard the ''Old Glory (aircraft), Old Glory'' while attempting a transatlantic flight, accompanied by Payne, the editor of the ''New York Daily Mirror''. One of the plane's wings was later found off the coast of Cape Race, but no trace of the crew was ever found. , rowspan-"3" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Lloyd W. Bertaud , style="text-align:center;" , 31 , - , Philip A. Payne , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , rowspan="4" data-sort-value="1927-12-23" , 23 December 1927 , Oskar Omdal , style="text-align:center;" , 31 , rowspan="4",

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, rowspan="4", In 23 December 1927, Grayson, pilot Omdal, navigator Goldsborough, and radio engineer Koehler took off from Roosevelt Field (airport), Curtiss Field in order to set the record for the first woman to cross the Atlantic, but the plane disappeared at sea. No trace of either the plane or the crew has been found since. , rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Frances Wilson Grayson , style="text-align:center;" , 35 , - , Brice Goldsborough , style="text-align:center;" , 38 , - , Frank Koehler , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1928-01-10" , 10 January 1928 , Moncrieff and Hood disappearance, John Moncrieff , style="text-align:center;" , 34 , rowspan="2",

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abe ...

, rowspan="2", The pair of New Zealanders were the first to attempt the Trans-Tasman flight from New Zealand to nearby Australia. After their departure from Sydney, neither the pilots or the aircraft were ever seen again. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Moncrieff and Hood disappearance, George Hood , style="text-align:center;" , 37 , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1928-03-13" , 13 March 1928 , Walter G. R. Hinchliffe , style="text-align:center;" , 34 , rowspan="2",

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, rowspan="2", Hinchliffe, a decorated flying ace, and Mackay, an actress and aviation pioneer, attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a bid for Mackay to become the first woman to have succeeded in the Transatlantic flight. The plane was last seen near the west of Cork (city), Cork,

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

, but nothing more is known of it. , rowspan="2"style="text-align:center;" , , - , Elsie Mackay , style="text-align:center;" , 35 , - , data-sort-value="1928-05-25" , 25 May 1928 , Aldo Pontremoli , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , Arctic Ocean , Italian physicist Pontremoli joined the polar expedition of General Umberto Nobile who was in command of the airship ''Italia (airship), Italia''. The airship crash landed on ice, after which the airship envelope carrying Pontremoli, who was observed as alive and conscious, as well as five other people drifted away and disappeared. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1928-06-18" , 18 June 1928 , Roald Amundsen , style="text-align:center;" , 55 , rowspan="3", Barents Sea , rowspan="3", Norwegian polar region explorer Amundsen, French pilot Guilbaud and Norwegian pilot Dietrichson disappeared also with three other crew members on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission of the missing members of the Nobile crewin the Arctic, over the Barents Sea. The search for Amundsen and his team was called off in September 1928 by the Politics of Norway, Norwegian Government. No bodies were ever found. , rowspan="3"style="text-align:center;" , , - , René Guilbaud , style="text-align:center;" , 37 , - , Leif Dietrichson , style="text-align:center;" , 37 , - , data-sort-value="1931-10-03" , 3 October 1931 , Lauro De Bosis , style="text-align:center;" , 29 , Tyrrhenian Sea , De Bosis, an Italian poet, aviator, and anti-fascist, took off from Marseille on a small Klemm L 25 heading for Corsica and then Italy. He reached Rome and circled over the city centre for a half hour, dropping thousands of antifascist leaflets. Before Italian Air Forces can arrive, he had flown off to sea for Corsica, never to be seen again. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1934-12-03" , 3 December 1934 , Charles Ulm , style="text-align:center;" , 36 ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, Ulm was an Australian aviator who, together with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, was the founder of the Australian National Airways (1930), Australian National Airways. In December 1934, he, his copilot and his navigator disappeared in the Pacific Ocean during a test flight from Oakland, California to Hawaii in the aircraft ''Stella Australis''. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1935-11-08" , 8 November 1935 , Charles Kingsford Smith , style="text-align:center;" , 38 , rowspan="2" , Andaman Sea , rowspan="2" , Australian pioneer aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge disappeared during an overnight flight from Allahabad, India, to Singapore while attempting to break the England–Australia speed record. Eighteen months later, Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel (with its tire still inflated) on the shoreline of Aye Island in the Andaman Sea, {{cvt, 3, km, 0 off the south-east coastline of Burma, which Lockheed Corporation, Lockheed confirmed to be from their Lockheed Altair, the ''Lady Southern Cross''. Botanists who examined the weeds clinging to it estimated that the aircraft itself lies not far from the island at a depth of approximately {{cvt, 15, fathom, 0. A filmmaker claimed to have located ''Lady Southern Cross'' on the seabed in February 2009. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Tommy Pethybridge , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , data-sort-value="1936-02-10" , 10 February 1936 , Émile Barrière , style="text-align:center;" , 33 , Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean , Barrière, an early-20th-century French aviator who played a major role in the early development commercial aviation in South America, was a passenger on an Air France Latécoère 300, Latécoère 301 ''Ville de Buenos Aires'' which disappeared en route from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil to Dakar, French West Africa on 10 February 1936. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1936-10-01" , October 1936 , Brian Abbot , style="text-align:center;" , 24–25 , rowspan="2" ,

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abe ...

, rowspan="2" , Brian Abbot was the stage name of Australians, Australian actor George Rikard Bell, who along with his sidekick and fellow actor Leslie Hay-Simpson mysteriously disappeared after setting out from Lord Howe Island for

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

in October 1936; they were never seen again despite a week long search having taken place to find them. A significant number of boats have disappeared around the same area where Abbot and Hay-Simpson disappeared. A boat with five men from Sydney also mysteriously vanished a few weeks after the disappearance of Abbot and Hay-Simpson and was also never seen again. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Leslie Hay-Simpson , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , data-sort-value="1936-11-10" , 10 November 1936 , James Jenkins Simpson , style="text-align:center;" , 54 , Aegean Sea , Simpson, a British Entomology, entomologist and Marine biology, marine biologist, was last seen at sea on the morning of 10 November 1936 and is believed to have drowned. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1937-07-02" , 2 July 1937 , Amelia Earhart , style="text-align:center;" , 39 , rowspan="2", Pacific Ocean, Central Pacific Ocean , rowspan="2", American aviator Amelia Earhart was the first woman to try a circumnavigational flight of the globe. During the attempt, she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the central Pacific in the vicinity of Howland Island on 2 July 1937. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , {{cite web, title=What Happened to Amelia Earhart?, url=http://www.history.com/topics/what-happened-to-amelia-earhart, website=History Valut, publisher=History.com, access-date=29 October 2016 , - , Fred Noonan , style="text-align:center;" , 44 , - , data-sort-value="1937-08-13" , 13 August 1937 , Sigizmund Levanevsky , style="text-align:center;" , 35 , Arctic Ocean , Levanevsky, a Soviet aviator, with his crew of five and their Bolkhovitinov DB-A aircraft disappeared in the vicinity of the North Pole on the Arctic Ocean. They had reported a loss of power from one of their four Mikulin AM-34 engines while attempting to prove a transpolar route between Asia and North America commercially viable. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1938-03-25" , 25 March 1938 , Ettore Majorana , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , Tyrrhenian Sea , An Italian physicist, Majorana disappeared in unknown circumstances during a boat trip from Palermo to Naples on 25 March 1938. There is some evidence that he was alive in South America in 1959 and that his disappearance was voluntary. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite web, title=Ettore Majorana: The Mystery Might Be Solved , url=http://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/ettore_majorana_mystery_might_be_solved-79823, website=science 2.0, date=27 August 2014, access-date=18 April 2017 , - , data-sort-value="1939-03-20" , 20 March 1939 , William Snodgrass (politician), William Snodgrass , style="text-align:center;" , 68–69 , Cook Strait , Snodgrass, a New Zealand politician, disappeared from the inter-island ferry ''Arahura (twin screw ship), Arahura'' while travelling overnight from Wellington to Nelson on 20 March 1939. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1939-03-24" , 24 March 1939 , Richard Halliburton , style="text-align:center;" , 39 , rowspan="2",

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, rowspan="2", Halliburton, an American travel writer and adventurer, vanished while attempting to sail the ''Sea Dragon'', a Chinese junk, across the Pacific Ocean, accompanied by photojournalist Paul Mooney. In 1945, wreckage identified as a rudder, and believed to belong to the ''Sea Dragon'', washed ashore in San Diego. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Paul Mooney (writer), Paul Mooney , style="text-align:center;" , 34 , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1940-03-01" , 1 March 1940 , Harold Whistler , style="text-align:center;" , 43 , rowspan="2" , Gulf of Oman , rowspan="2", Whistler, an English fighter pilot and flying ace, and Pannirselvam, an Indian attorney and politician, along with 6 others disappeared on board the Handley Page H.P.42 Handley Page H.P.42#G-AAGX Hannibal, ''Hannibal'' while returning to the UK from a trip to India. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , , - , A. T. Pannirselvam , style="text-align:center;" , 51 , - , data-sort-value="1940-09-03" , 3 September 1940 , Elroy Guckert , style="text-align:center;" , 40 , Location unknown , Guckert, an American football and basketball coach, is said to have died in 1940 when he disappeared from a ship but his body was never recovered and he was never seen, so his fate remains unknown. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1940-11-28" , 28 November 1940 , Helmut Wick , style="text-align:center;" , 25 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, Wick, a German ''Luftwaffe'' flying ace and wing commander credited with 56 aerial victories against the Allied powers, was shot down by British forces during the Battle of Britain. His body was never found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1940-11-28" , 28 November 1940 , John Dundas (RAF officer), John Dundas , style="text-align:center;" , 25 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, Dundas, an English Royal Air Force, RAF pilot and fighter ace believed to have shot down Helmut Wick, Nazi Germany's deadliest flying ace, was purportedly shot down himself moments later. His body was also never found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1941-01-05" , 5 January 1941 , Amy Johnson , style="text-align:center;" , 37 , Thames Estuary, England , An English pioneer pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, Johnson disappeared during a ferry flight after being blown off course due to bad weather and bailing out into the Thames Estuary, presumably dying. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1941-04-20" , 20 April 1941 , Luigi Barbesino , style="text-align:center;" , 46 ,

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, Barbesino, an Italian association footballer and manager who represented his country at the Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads, 1912 Summer Olympics, later abandoned his job to serve in the Regia Aeronautica. During a training course, he and his six crewmen went missing during bad weather and were never seen again. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1941-05-12" , 12 May 1941 , Zdzisław Henneberg , style="text-align:center;" , 30 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, Polish Royal Air Force, RAF airman and flying ace Henneberg ditched his plane in the English Channel during the Battle of Britain. He was last seen floating in the water, but a two-day search was unable to find him. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1941-11-30" , 30 November 1941 , Esmond Romilly , style="text-align:center;" , 23 , North Sea , Romilly, a British socialist and journalist, disappeared during a bombing raid on Hamburg, with neither his body or the plane's wreckage ever being found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1942-04-14" , 14 April 1942 , David Wanklyn , style="text-align:center;" , 30 ,

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, Wanklyn disappeared along with his crew while aboard HMS Upholder, HMS ''Upholder'' on 14 April 1942 in the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

and is believed to have been killed. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1942-05-05" , 5 May 1942 , Gerhard Köppen , style="text-align:center;" , 23 , Sea of Azov, Russia , Gerhard Köppen was a German ''Luftwaffe'' flying ace as well as a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross#Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves who disappeared on 5 May 1942 after he was last seen swimming in the Sea of Azov with Soviet boats going after him. He was officially declared dead on 30 May 1969. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1942-05-08" , 8 May 1942 , William B. Ault , style="text-align:center;" , 43 , Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia , Ault, a United States Navy, U.S. Navy commander, disappeared together with his radioman, William T. Butler, during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Neither man's remains were ever recovered. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1942-06-05" , 5 June 1942 , Samuel Adams (naval officer), Samuel Adams , style="text-align:center;" , 30 , Pacific War, Pacific theatre , Samuel Adams was an officer in the

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

who disappeared on 5 June 1942 while flying in the Pacific War, Pacific theatre; he is believed to have been shot down. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1942-08-01" , August 1942 , Jose Gozar , style="text-align:center;" , 23–24 , Tanon Strait, Philippines , The Filipino military aviator and flight officer of the Philippine Army Air Corps, Army Air Corps was presumably lost at sea with another officer while attempting to reach Mindoro under unfavorable weather conditions. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1942-08-16" , 16 August 1942 , L-8, Lt. Ernest Cody , style="text-align:center;" , 27 , rowspan="2" , San Francisco Bay, California, U.S. , rowspan="2" , U.S. Navy blimp ''L-8'' drifted inland from its route doing antisubmarine patrol off the coast of California near San Francisco several hours after its crew, Lt. Ernest Cody and Ens. Charles Adams, radioed in that they were going to take a closer look at an oil slick. When the ship eventually crashed in Daly City, California, Daly City, neither man was aboard. A massive search failed to find any trace of them; they were both declared dead a year later. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , {{cite web , url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/L-8_crash_site.htm, title=The Crash of Navy Blimp L-8, access-date=1 December 2015, publisher=Check Six, date=May 2008 , - , L-8, Ens. Charles Adams , style="text-align:center;" , 38 , - , data-sort-value="1942-12-13" , 13 December 1942 , Brian Lane (RAF officer), Brian Lane , style="text-align:center;" , 25 , North Sea , Lane, a British author and Royal Air Force, RAF flying ace, is thought to have been shot down by an enemy plane while flying over the North Sea. His remains have never been recovered. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1943-04-05" , 5 April 1943 , Denver V. Truelove , style="text-align:center;" , 24 ,

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, A United States Army Air Forces, USAAF bombardier and member of the Doolittle Raiders who took part in bombing Japan in April 1942. The following year, while he and several others were participating in a bombing raid in Sicily, Italy, their plane was shot down. Truelove and two others' remains were never recovered. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1943-07-08" , 8 July 1943 , Kenji Tsukagoshi , style="text-align:center;" , 43 ,

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

, Tsukagoshi, a Japanese aviator and explorer, disappeared after departing from Singapore for Crimea in the prototype Tachikawa Ki-77. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1943-07-13" , 13 July 1943 , Geoffrey Appleyard , style="text-align:center;" , 26 ,

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near Sicily, Italy ,

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

officer Appleyard disappeared on a return flight from the Allied invasion of Sicily. His aircraft was never located, and it is presumed he was shot down by friendly fire. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1943-10-04" , 4 October 1943 , Ernest Melville Charles Guest , style="text-align:center;" , 23 , Bay of Biscay , A Southern Rhodesian Royal Air Force, RAF pilot, Guest was last seen on 4 October 1943 when he was fighting six Junkers Ju 88, Ju 88s while on patrol with another plane. He was pronounced missing in January 1944. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite journal , url=http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1944/1944%20-%200051.PDF , title=Service Aviation , journal=Flight , date=6 January 1944 , pages=25 , - , data-sort-value="1943-10-04" , 4 October 1943 , Erwin Clausen , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , North Sea , Clausen, a German ''Luftwaffe'' military aviator and fighter ace who fought in multiple large-scale invasions and operations, was posted as missing in action on 4 October 1943 during a defence of the Reich mission. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , {{circa 31 October 1943 , Jack Kraynick , style="text-align:center;" , 29 ,

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

, Kraynick, an American football Back (American football), back who played for the North Carolina Tar Heels football, North Carolina Tar Heels, and later a first lieutenant in the USAAF, disappeared while flying over the Caribbean Sea and is presumed to have died. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1944-02-14" , 14 February 1944 , Theodore Kara , style="text-align:center;" , 27 ,

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, Theodore Kara was an Americans, American boxer and a United States Army Air Corps radioman who disappeared on 14 February 1944 while flying over the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

and was never seen or heard from again. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite web, title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War, url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65, url-status=dead, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65, archive-date=17 April 2020, access-date=24 July 2018, work=Sports Reference , - , data-sort-value="1944-04-20" , 20 April 1944 , Gerry Atwell , style="text-align:center;" , 27 , Adriatic Sea , Atwell, an Australian rugby footballer who served as a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF, disappeared during a bombing raid on Italy. His remains were never recovered. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1944-07-09" , 9 July 1944 , Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson , style="text-align:center;" , 23 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, The English-born Swedish volunteer fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force, RAF disappeared after having to eject from his aircraft. Neither he or his plane were ever recovered. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1944-07-26" , 26 July 1944 , USS Robalo, USS ''Robalo'' crewmen , style="text-align:center;" , Various , South China Sea , Although the U.S. Navy claimed the submarine USS ''Robalo'' was lost with all hands after failing to report while on a July 1944 patrol in the Philippines, Lt. Cmdr. Manning Kimmel (31) and three other crewmen are known to have survived. A note recovered by an Army prisoner of war claimed the four had been arrested as spies after reaching Palawan Island following the ''Robalo'''s 26 July collision with a Japanese mine just offshore. Another witness account says they were Palawan massacre, massacred following an air raid later that year but Japanese records do not indicate they were being held at the camp in question at that time. It is believed that they were killed in captivity, but officially their fate is still unknown. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite book, last1=Blair, first1=Clay Jr., title=Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan, date=1975, publisher=Naval Institute Press, isbn=978-1557502179, page=688, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KGjfqe6DcrEC , - , data-sort-value="1944-07-26" , 26 July 1944 , Leon Vance , style="text-align:center;" , 27 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Vance was a decorated veteran of World War II, serving in the United States Army Air Forces. He, and all aboard a Douglas C-54 Skymaster, C-54 Skymaster, disappeared while travelling across the Atlantic Ocean from England to the United States. This aircraft is believed to have crashed somewhere between Iceland and Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1944-07-31" , 31 July 1944 , {{nowrap, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , style="text-align:center;" , 44 ,

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who disappeared over the Mediterranean on a reconnaissance mission during July 1944, is believed to have died at that time. In August, an unidentifiable body, wearing a French uniform, was found in the sea near Carqueiranne and was buried there. In 2000, the wreckage of the aircraft flown by Saint-Exupéry was found on the seabed near Marseille. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , 26 August 1944 , Toshio Kuroiwa , style="text-align:center;", 35 , Off the Malay Peninsula , Japanese Imperial Japanese Navy, IJN warrant officer and fighter pilot Kuroiwa participated in one of the first official shootdowns of enemy aircraft during the January 28 incident in 1932. After retiring from service, he and the civilian transport aircraft he was piloting disappeared off the Malay Peninsula, never to be seen again. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1944-10-29" , 29 October 1944 , Alfonza W. Davis , style="text-align:center;" , 24 , Adriatic Sea , Davis, an American aviator and member of the Tuskegee Airmen, disappeared during a reconnaissance mission over the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Italy. He was presumed to have been killed, but his remains have never been found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1944-11-07" , 7 November 1944 , Clint Castleberry , style="text-align:center;" , 21 , Liberia , Clint Castleberry was an Americans, American college football player and later a USAAF Lieutenant who disappeared on 7 November 1944 after taking off from Roberts International Airport, Roberts Field in Liberia with another plane, and was later presumed dead after a Royal Air Force plane saw unidentified wreckage that was thought to have been from one of the planes. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , 8 November 1944 , Peter Deinboll , style="text-align:center;" , 29 , North Sea , Deinboll, a Norwegian engineer and resistance fighter who took part in sabotage operations against German locomotives, disappeared in transit between the United Kingdom and Norway and was never seen again. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1944-11-22" , 22 November 1944 , Johan Pitka , style="text-align:center;" , 72 , Baltic Sea , Pitka was an Estonian navy commander and prominent fighter in the Estonian War of Independence. In 1944, he returned to his country from his exile in Finland to fight against the Soviet occupying forces, but is thought to have been killed in action. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1944-12-15" , 15 December 1944 , Glenn Miller , style="text-align:center;" , 40 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, An American big band leader and recording artist, Miller went missing on the night of 15 December 1944 in a US Army Noorduyn Norseman, UC-64 Norseman that disappeared over the English Channel while en route from the United Kingdom to Paris,

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. Miller was on the flight to make arrangements for his band to entertain Allied servicemen. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1945-01-17", 26 February 1945 , Millard Harmon , style="text-align:center;" , 57 , rowspan="3" ,

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, rowspan="3" , Harmon, a United States Army Air Forces lieutenant general and one of the highest-ranking Americans to die in World War II, his chief of staff brigadier general Andersen, and pilot Savage disappeared while traveling between Kwajalein Atoll and Hawaii. The aircraft was never recovered. , rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;", , - , James Roy Andersen , style="text-align:center;" , 40 , - , F. E. Savage , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1945-03-27", 27 March 1945 , Peter Drummond (RAF officer), Peter Drummond , style="text-align:center;" , 50 , rowspan="2" , North Atlantic Ocean , rowspan="2" , Drummond, a Australian-born RAF senior commander, and Brabner, a British Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP, along with many others disappeared with the Consolidated Liberator II ''Commando (aircraft), Commando'' while on a flight from RAF Northolt to Lajes Field in the

Azores ) , motto =( en, "Rather die free than subjected in peace") , anthem= ( en, "Anthem of the Azores") , image_map=Locator_map_of_Azores_in_EU.svg , map_alt=Location of the Azores within the European Union , map_caption=Location of the Azores wi ...

, en route to Ottawa in Canada. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;", {{cite web, title=Accident record, url=http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=157730, website=ASN, accessdate=3 October 2015 , - , Rupert Brabner , style="text-align:center;" , 33 , - , data-sort-value="1945-08-01", 1 August 1945 , Naoshi Kanno , style="text-align:center;" , 23 , Off Yakushima, Ōsumi Islands, Japan , A Japanese fighter ace with twenty-five confirmed kills, Kanno went missing off the island of Yakushima on 1 August 1945. His remains were never found. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1948-01-30" , 30 January 1948 , Arthur Coningham (RAF officer), Sir Arthur Coningham , style="text-align:center;" , 53 , Bermuda Triangle , A retired Royal Air Force, RAF Air Marshal, Sir Arthur Coningham disappeared when an Avro Tudor IV, BSAA Star Tiger disappearance, G-AHNP ''Star Tiger'', went missing over the western Atlantic. He was one of 25 passengers, together with six crewmen, who were lost when the flight from Santa Maria Airport (Azores), Santa Maria Airport in the

Azores ) , motto =( en, "Rather die free than subjected in peace") , anthem= ( en, "Anthem of the Azores") , image_map=Locator_map_of_Azores_in_EU.svg , map_alt=Location of the Azores within the European Union , map_caption=Location of the Azores wi ...

failed to reach its destination of Kindley Air Force Base, Kindley Field,

Bermuda ) , anthem = "God Save the King" , song_type = National song , song = " Hail to Bermuda" , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , mapsize2 = , map_caption2 = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = , e ...

. ''Star Tigers sister aircraft G-AGRE "Star Ariel", G-AGRE ''Star Ariel'' also disappeared over the western Atlantic, with the loss of all seven crewmen and 13 passengers, while flying from Bermuda to Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston Airport,

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, the following year. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1952-06-08" , 8 June 1952 , David Atcherley , style="text-align:center;" , 48 ,

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, A decorated Royal Air Force officer, Atcherley was lost at sea while on a 40-minute flight from Egypt to Nicosia, Cyprus. Despite extensive searches from British, Israeli, Turkish and American aircraft, neither he or his plane have ever been located. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1953-02-07" , 7 February 1953 , ''Holchus 5 crew members , style="text-align:center;" , Various ,

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

, The ''Holchu'', a small cargo ship, was sighted adrift in the Indian Ocean on 7 February 1953, around {{convert, 200, mi south of the Nicobar Islands, by HMT Empire Windrush, HMT ''Empire Windrush''. She was later boarded by the crew of a British cargo ship, alerted by ''Windrush''{{'s radio warning. They found no trace of the crew and the ''Holchu'' was towed to Colombo. ''Holchu'' was carrying a cargo of rice and was in good condition, aside from a broken mast. Adequate supplies of food, water and fuel were found, and a meal had been prepared in the ship's galley. The fate of the ''Holchu''{{'s crew remains unknown. , style="text-align:center;" , {{Cite newspaper The Times , title=Ship Found Adrift Without Crew. , date=11 February 1953 , page=8 , issue=52543 , - , data-sort-value="1955-11-10" , 10 November 1955 , ''MV Joyita, Joyita'' , style="text-align:center;" , Various , Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean , On 10 November, the {{cvt, 69, ft merchant vessel ''Joyita'' was found abandoned, partially submerged and listing heavily to port, north of the Pacific island of Vanua Levu, part of Fiji. There was no sign of the 25 passengers and crew who had been aboard when it was last seen on its departure from Apia, Samoa five weeks earlier. An extensive investigation has failed to find any trace of the passengers or crew. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1955-11-23" , 23 November 1955 , ''SS Empire Adur'' , style="text-align:center;" , Various , Unknown , SS Empire Adur served for a further seven years but went missing under tow by the Philippines registered tug ''Albacore'' to Hong Kong for scrapping. Both vessels were presumed lost.< Her last reported position was north of the Paracel Islands at {{coord, 17, 56, N, 113, 45, E, display=inline,title on 23 November 1955. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite web, url=http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/EmpireA.html , title=EMPIRE – A , publisher=Mariners-L , access-date=2008-12-14{{cite book , first1 =W H, last1 =Mitchell , first2=L A , last2=Sawyer , year = 1995, title = The Empire Ships, publisher = Lloyd's of London Press Ltd, location = London, isbn=1-85044-275-4 , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1956-03-10" , 10 March 1956 , 1956 B-47 disappearance, Robert H. Hodgin , style="text-align:center;" , 31 , rowspan="3",

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, rowspan="3", Three United States Air Force airmen, commander 1956 B-47 disappearance#, Captain Robert H. Hodgin, observer Captain Gordon M. Insley and pilot 2nd Lt. Ronald L. Kurtz disappeared when their B-47 failed to make contact with an aerial refueling tanker at 14,000 ft over the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

. While the unarmed aircraft was transporting two different capsules of nuclear weapons material in carrying cases, a nuclear detonation was not possible. , style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3", , - , 1956 B-47 disappearance, Gordon M. Insley , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , - , 1956 B-47 disappearance, Ronald L. Kurtz , style="text-align:center;" , 22 , - , data-sort-value="1956-04-29" , 29 April 1956 , Lionel Crabb, Lionel "Buster" Crabb , style="text-align:center;" , 46 , Portsmouth Harbour , Crabb, a retired British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

frogman, disappeared during an MI6 mission to spy on the Soviet {{sclass, Sverdlov, cruiser, 1 {{ship, Soviet cruiser, Ordzhonikidze, , 2. The coroner concluded that a body (missing its head and hands) in a frogman suit found floating in Chichester Harbour the following year was Crabb's but a positive identification was never made nor cause of death determined. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1958-07-01" , July 1958 , Lynne C. Quiggle , style="text-align:center;" , 52 , North Pacific Ocean , An American Rear admiral (United States), rear admiral serving in the United States Navy, Navy, Quiggle disappeared aboard the SS President Cleveland (1947), SS ''President Cleveland'' on his way back to California from a trip to Tokyo. His body was never found, and he is officially listed as "lost at sea" due to unknown circumstances. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1958-11-09" , 9 November 1958 , Harry Frank Broadbent , style="text-align:center;" , 48 , rowspan="2" ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, rowspan="2" , Broadbent, a British pilot who took part in air racing and record-breaking flights in the 1930s, piloted Martin PBM Mariner CS-THB named "Porto Santo" from Cabo Ruivo Seaplane Base near Lisbon, headed for Funchal, Madeira. Accompanied by co-pilot Rowell, 4 other crew and 30 passengers, a radio message code "QUG" (meaning "I am forced to land immediately") was received when the plane would have been over the Atlantic. No trace of the aircraft or its occupants was subsequently found. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Thomas Rowell , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , data-sort-value="1959-10-28" , 28 October 1959 , Camilo Cienfuegos , style="text-align:center;" , 27 , Straits of Florida , A Cuban revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos disappeared when his Cessna 310 went missing over the Straits of Florida during a night flight from Camagüey to Havana. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1961-09-09" , 9 September 1961 , {{nowrap, David Kenyon Webster , style="text-align:center;" , 39 ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

near Santa Monica, California, U.S. , Webster was a journalist for the ''Los Angeles Daily News'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and a World War II veteran with "Easy" Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (the subject of the book and miniseries ''Band of Brothers (miniseries), Band of Brothers''). He disappeared while shark fishing near the Santa Monica coast and is presumed to have drowned. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1962-06-16" , 16 June 1962 , Private Colin Luke , style="text-align:center;" , 21 , Gibraltar/ Straits of Gibraltar , A soldier in the 1st Battalion, Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry Regiment, went missing while attempting to swim alone around the Rock of Gibraltar from Little Bay to Eastern Beach, Gibraltar, Eastern Beach. His clothes were found in Little Bay by Police Constable Conroy. Private Gordon Ashworth was the last person to see Colin Luke at Europa Point Barracks before he disappeared. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1964-10-11" , 11 October 1964 , Holly Roth , style="text-align:center;" , 48 ,

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, Roth, an American crime novelist, disappeared on 11 October 1964 while sailing on a ketch with her husband 20 miles north of Safi, Morocco, Safi, Morocco. They departed Gibraltar for the Canary Islands on 8 October 1964. Her husband reported her missing about 4 AM while she was on watch, and reported a collision with another vessel. Her body was never recovered. , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1967-01-17" , 17 January 1967 , David K. E. Bruce#Personal and death, Audrey Bruce Currier , style="text-align:center;" , 33 , rowspan="2", Coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico , rowspan="2", American heiress Audrey Bruce Currier and her husband Stephen Currier, wealthy philanthropists described as one of the richest young couples in the world, vanished at sea sometime after 7:30 pm on the evening of 17 January 1967, on a routine {{convert, 76, mi charter flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Their plane, a Piper Apache piloted by John D. Watson (52) of Airplane Charters Inc., was last heard from when the pilot radioed at 7:30 pm for permission to overfly the US Naval base at Isla Culebra, which was denied. The plane was never seen or heard from again. Because the pilot had failed to file a flight plan, the search for the plane did not commence until 5 am, 9 hours after it failed to arrive in St. Thomas. Despite an extensive air-sea search by the US Coast Guard, no trace of the plane or its passengers was ever found. Audrey Currier was a granddaughter of the financier Andrew Mellon and the daughter of senior US diplomat David K. E. Bruce, while her husband Stephen was the son of socialite Mary Warburg. The Curriers had for the past ten years provided millions of dollars in financial support to the civil rights movement in the US through the Taconic Foundation and an umbrella group they founded, the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Council for United Civil Rights Leadership#Formation, Stephen Currier , style="text-align:center;" , 36 , - , data-sort-value="1967-12-17" , 17 December 1967 , Harold Holt , style="text-align:center;" , 59 , Cheviot Beach,

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, Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, Disappearance of Harold Holt, disappeared while swimming in heavy surf at a beach notorious for strong and dangerous rip currents. Despite one of the largest search-and-rescue operations ever mounted in Australia, his body was never found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1968-01-01" , 1968 , Arthur Piver , style="text-align:center;" , 58 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Piver was an American boatbuilder credited with pioneering the design of the multihull. An eager amateur sailor, Piver set out to participate in the 1968 Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, but was never seen again. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1969-05-22" , 22 May 1969 , 1969 theft of C-130, Paul Meyer , style="text-align:center;" , 23 ,

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, Meyer, a United States Air Force, USAF aircraft mechanic, stole a Lockheed C-130 Hercules while on a drinking binge, which he later crashed in the English Channel. The wreckage's remains were only discovered in 2018. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1969-07-10" , 10 July 1969 , Donald Crowhurst , style="text-align:center;" , 36 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Crowhurst was a competitor in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, ''Sunday Times'' Golden Globe single-handed nonstop around the world yacht race. An inexperienced yachtsman, Crowhurst fabricated his progress in the race through fake log entries, the last of which being dated 1 July 1969. His boat was found abandoned on 10 July 1969. , style="text-align:center;" ,

1970–present

{, class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" , - style="text-align:center;" ! Date ! Person(s) ! Age ! Missing from ! Circumstances ! width="10px" , {{abbr, Ref., References , - , data-sort-value="1971-01-01" , {{circa 1971 , Francis Brenton , style="text-align:center;" , 44 , Atlantic Ocean , Brenton, an English writer, explorer and adventurer who travelled around the world, mostly around the Americas and Africa, supposedly disappeared around 1971 while sailing back to England. , style="text-align:center", , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1972-10-16" , 16 October 1972 , Hale Boggs , style="text-align:center;" , 58 , rowspan="2", Gulf of Alaska , rowspan="2", Louisiana congressman who, together with friend and fellow congressman Nick Begich, at-large representative from Alaska, disappeared while flying over the Gulf of Alaska en route from Anchorage to Juneau. Their bodies were never found and they were declared legally dead two months later. , rowspan="2" style="text-align:center", , - , Nick Begich , style="text-align:center;" , 40 , - , data-sort-value="1973-03-28" , 28 March 1973 , Henry E. Stebbins , style="text-align:center;" , 68 , Atlantic Ocean , Stebbins, an American ambassador to Uganda, apparently fell overboard while travelling on the S. S. ''Leonardo da Vinci'' and was considered lost at sea, his body never being found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1974-02-21" , 21 February 1974 , Light Heart (balloon), Thomas Leigh Gatch Jr. , style="text-align:center;" , 48 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, near the Canary Islands , American balloonist Thomas Gatch disappeared while attempting to become the first human to Transatlantic crossing, cross the Atlantic by balloon. A day after lifting off from Harrisburg International Airport, Harrisburg Airport on 18 February, his balloon named ''Light Heart'' lost radio contact. On 21 February, it was sighted by a ship about 1600 km west of the Canary Islands but it has not been seen since. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1975-07-09" , 9 July 1975 , Bas Jan Ader , style="text-align:center;" , 33 ,

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, Ader, a

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conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker, was lost at sea sometime after 9 July 1975 while attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the US to England in the smallest boat ever. His deserted vessel was found off the coast of Ireland on 18 April 1976 but offered few clues as to his fate. , style="text-align:center", Daalder, Rene
"Here is Always Somewhere Else: The Disappearance of Bas Jan Ader"
(2007 documentary) , - , data-sort-value="1977-01-01" , 1977 , Bill Tilman , style="text-align:center;" , 79 , Atlantic Ocean , Tilman, an English mountaineer and explorer renowned for his sailing voyages and climbings of the Himalayan mountains, was invited as a crew member on the ''En Avant'' in 1977, with the final destination being Smith Island (South Shetland Islands), Smith Island. However, the boat was presumably lost at sea near the Falkland Islands, with everybody on board perishing. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1977-10-01" , October 1977 , Slim Wintermute , style="text-align:center;" , 60 , Portage Bay, Washington, U.S. , Wintermute, an American National Collegiate Athletic Association, collegiate and professional basketball player, disappeared in October 1977, after setting out in his yacht from Portage Bay. His boat was found a few days later with one of his friends asleep on board; foul play was not suspected. , style="text-align:center" , , - , data-sort-value="1978-03-17" , 17 March 1978 , Eddie Aikau , style="text-align:center;" , 31 , Hawaii, U.S. , Aikau, a Native Hawaiians, 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 Hokulea, Hōkūleʻa, on which he was a crew member, began taking on water 20 miles off Molokai. He was last seen paddling his surfboard towards Lanai to get help. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1978-11-01" , November 1978 , Alain Colas , style="text-align:center;" , 35 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Colas, a French sailor who was the first to complete a solitary round-the-world race in a multihull, disappeared while participating in the first Route du Rhum in his boat ''Manureva''. Neither he nor his boat were ever found. , , - , data-sort-value="1979-07-07" , 7 July 1979 , Ian Mackintosh , style="text-align:center;" , 40 , Gulf of Alaska, U.S. , Ian Mackintosh, the creator and writer of ''The Sandbaggers'', a British television series, was flying with two others over the Gulf of Alaska in a light aircraft on 7 July 1979. The plane sent out a distress signal which was picked up by the United States Coast Guard. The plane's last known position was searched, but no wreckage of it was ever found, and its passengers have not been heard from since. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1979-12-23" , 23 December 1979 , Jon Mathews , style="text-align:center;" , 47 ,

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

, Mathews, an American adventurer and yachtsman, together with his wife Jean attempted to circumnavigate the world on their vessel, the ''Drambuie II''. While heading towards Durban, South Africa, they sailed into the path of Cyclone Claudette and were presumably killed in the process. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1980-08-05" , 5 August 1980 , Disappearance of Royal Marine Alan Addis, Alan Addis , style="text-align:center;" , 19 , East Falkland, Falkland Islands , The Royal Marine Alan Addis went missing on 5 August 1980. His small unit was on a patrol to North Arm in Lafonia on East Falkland. Addis was last seen at 1:30 am after the marines had attended a local function in the social hall of the remote and small community. He was not missed until the other members of his team had set sail on a steamer to take them back to their base at Port Stanley. The official report assumes he drowned, but investigations and rumours have led to a belief that he was murdered. No body or trace has been found. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1980-10-01" , October 1980 , Angus Primrose , style="text-align:center;" , 53 ,

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, U.S. , The designer and naval architect Primrose went missing at sea during October 1980 and is presumed to have drowned. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1985-09-01" , September 1985 , Art Scholl , style="text-align:center;" , 53 , California , Scholl was an American aerobatic pilot, aerial cameraman, flight instructor and educator based in Riverside, Southern California. He died during the filming of ''Top Gun'' when his Pitts Special, Pitts S-2 camera plane failed to recover from a Spin (aerodynamics), spin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean. Scholl had entered the spin intentionally in order to capture it on film using on-board cameras. Observers watched the plane continue to spin as it descended past the planned recovery altitude. The plane impacted the ocean about five miles off the coast, near Carlsbad, California. The exact cause of the crash was never determined. Neither the aircraft nor Scholl's body were ever recovered. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite news, url=http://articles.latimes.com/1985-09-18/local/me-6135_1_stunt-pilot, title=Famed Stunt Pilot Art Scholl Dies as Plane Plunges Into Sea, work=Los Angeles Times, date=18 September 1985 , author1=Jack Jones, Times Staff Writer , access-date=10 April 2021 , - , data-sort-value="1986-07-01" , July 1986 , Svante Odén , style="text-align:center;" , 62 , Baltic Sea , A Swedish soil scientist, meteorologist, and chemist, Odén was testing a top-secret newly invented device that could detect submarines in late July 1986. During this test, he disappeared at the Baltic Sea near the Roslagen, Stockholm archipelago, and presumably died. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1987-08-02" , 2 August 1987 , Clement Howell , style="text-align:center;" , 52 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, Howell, a Turks and Caicos Islands politician and interim member of the advistory council, disappeared with four other people when their plane presumably crashed into the sea on 2 August 1987. Neither the wreckage or the bodies were ever found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1990-09-11" , 11 September 1990 , 1990 Faucett Perú Boeing 727 disappearance, 1990 Faucett Perú Boeing 727 , style="text-align:center;" , Various , South-east of Cape Race, Newfoundland , 1990 Faucett Perú Boeing 727 was a airliner that mysteriously disappeared on 11 September 1990 in an area of the

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

in Newfoundland. No one knows what became of the aircraft or its passengers. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1995-05-21" , 21 May 1995 , Larry Hillblom , style="text-align:center;" , 52 , Mariana Islands , Hillblom, a co-founder of the DHL Worldwide shipping company, was on board a plane that went down in the Northern Mariana Islands on 21 May 1995. The bodies of the pilot and other passengers were found but no trace of Hillblom has ever been found. His house in Saipan was found to have had areas where DNA might be found washed down with acid and artifacts with DNA traces buried in the backyard in an apparent effort to prevent any possible claimants to his estate from proving Hillblom had been their father. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1995-11-12" , 12 November 1995 , Bruno Bréguet , style="text-align:center;" , 45 , Ionian Sea , Bréguet, a Swiss-born associate of terrorist Carlos the Jackal, was last seen on a ferry from Italy to Greece 12 November 1995. His family suspected he had been murdered and a body found in Greece might have been his, but authorities remain uncertain. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1997-01-01" , January 1997 , Gerry Roufs , style="text-align:center;" , 44 ,

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, Canadian competitive sailor Roufs vanished at sea while competing in the Vendée Globe yacht race. His boat, the ''Groupe LG 2'', was found off the coast of Chile in July 1997, but Roufs himself was never located. , , - , data-sort-value="1997-02-14" , 14 February 1997 , Grant Hadwin , style="text-align:center;" , 47 , Hecate Strait, British Columbia , Hadwin, an anti-logging activist, went missing 14 February 1997 while traveling by kayak across the Hecate Strait to Graham Island near British Columbia to face criminal charges for cutting down Kiidk'yaas, a rare golden spruce tree revered by the Haida people. The wreckage of his kayak was discovered in June but no trace of Hadwin himself has been found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1998-01-25" , 25 January 1998 , Disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, Tom Lonergan , style="text-align:center;" , 34 , rowspan="2", Coral Sea,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

, rowspan="2", Tom and Eileen Lonergan, a married couple from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, disappeared when they were mistakenly stranded in the Coral Sea after a scuba dive on 25 January 1998. Eileen's father, John Hains, later said that he suspects the couple ultimately became dehydrated and disoriented and in the end succumbed to drowning or sharks. , style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2", , - , Disappearance of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, Eileen Lonergan , style="text-align:center;" , 29 , - , data-sort-value="1998-03-24" , 24 March 1998 , Disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley, Amy Lynn Bradley , style="text-align:center;" , 23 , Curaçao, Antilles , Bradley, an American passenger on the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship MS Rhapsody of the Seas, ''Rhapsody of the Seas'', disappeared while the ship was docking in Curaçao. , style="text-align:center;" , Aruba's Missing Persons Information
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505070503/http://www.visitaruba.com/facts/newsdesk/missing.html , df=dmy-all , date=2009-05-05 ''VisitAruba.com''. , - , rowspan="4" data-sort-value="1999-09-03" , 3 September 1999 , Godard family disappearance, Yves Godard , style="text-align:center;" , 43 , rowspan="4", English Channel, Channel coast,

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, rowspan="4", French physician Godard along with his children Camille and Marius were last seen buying waffles from a street vendor in Bréhec, a small port on the western tip of Brittany. Their rented sailboat was found abandoned in Plouézec the next day. On 7–8 September, blood identified as that of Dr Godard's wife Marie-France was found in their camper van and in the family home. Fragments of the bodies of the three were recovered from the sea bed over the next few years. Godard's wife is still considered missing and the apparent multiple murders are unsolved. The case was officially closed in 2012 with only accidental death eliminated as a possibility. , style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4", , - , Godard family disappearance, Marie-France Godard , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , Godard family disappearance, Camille Godard , style="text-align:center;" , 6 , - , Godard family disappearance, Marius Godard , style="text-align:center;" , 4 , - , data-sort-value="1999-06-12" , 12 June 1999 , Gerry Clark , style="text-align:center;" , 72 , Antipodes Islands, New Zealand , New Zealand sailor, writer and ornithologist Clark and his friend Roger Sale were sailing to recover satellite transmitters used to track albatrosses. Both of them disappeared while on the trip, and have never been located. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2000-11-30" , 30 November 2000 , Scott Smith (musician), Scott Smith , style="text-align:center;" , 45 , near San Francisco, California, U.S. , Smith, a Canadian musician and bassist for the rock band Loverboy, was sailing his boat, the ''Sea Major'', along with two friends. A large wave then swept him overboard, with subsequent searches failing to find his body. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2002-07-07" , 7 July 2002 , Bison Dele , style="text-align:center;" , 33 , Tahiti, French Polynesia , Dele, an American professional basketball player, is believed to have been murdered by his brother in the sea near Tahiti, French Polynesia in 2002. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2005-07-05" , 5 July 2005 , Disappearance of George Smith, George Allen Smith IV , style="text-align:center;" , 26 , Coast of Turkey , Smith, an American passenger on MS Brilliance of the Seas, ''Brilliance of the Seas'', disappeared from the ship and police suspect homicide. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2007-01-28" , 28 January 2007 , Jim Gray (computer scientist), Jim Gray , style="text-align:center;" , 63 , San Francisco Bay, California, U.S. , Gray, a database pioneer, Microsoft Research scientist and Turing Award winner, left San Francisco Bay in his {{cvt, 12, m, 0 sailboat ''Tenacious'' to scatter his mother's ashes at the Farallon Islands, a wildlife refuge {{cvt, 43, km, 0 away. He was reported missing when he failed to return later the same day. No Mayday (distress signal), Mayday call was heard and his EPIRB was not activated. Despite an ambitious search and rescue mission, no trace of Gray or his yacht was ever found. In 2012, he was declared legally dead. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite journal , last=Greengard , first=Samuel , date=June 2012 , title=Jim Gray Declared Dead , journal=Communications of the ACM , volume=55 , issue=7 , page=19 , doi=10.1145/2209249.2209257 , editor1-first=Moshe , editor1-last=Vardi , editor1-link=Moshe Y. Vardi , issn=0001-0782, doi-access=free , - , data-sort-value="2007-02-01" , February 2007 , Andrew McAuley , style="text-align:center;" , 38 ,

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abe ...

, McAuley, an Australian adventurer best known for mountaineering and sea kayaking in remote parts of the world, is presumed to have died following his disappearance at sea while attempting to kayak {{convert, 1600, km across the

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abe ...

. A recovered memory stick on the kayak records him attempting to make a distress call. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite news , title=Search for kayaker called off , url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/missing-kayakers-wife-losing-hope/2007/02/11/1171128816655.html , date=11 February 2007 , work=The Sydney Morning Herald , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="2007-04-20" , 20 April 2007 , Kaz II, Derek Batten , style="text-align:center;" , 56 , rowspan="3", Shute Harbour,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

, rowspan="3", ''Kaz II'', a {{cvt, 9.8, m, 0 catamaran, was found adrift on 20 April 2007 near Australia's Great Barrier Reef with its three-man crew, owner Derek Batten and brothers Peter and James Tunstead, missing. The yacht's sails were up and its engine was running. The global positioning system showed the yacht had been drifting since around the time of their last known radio contact, about 11 hours after they departed Shute Harbour for Townsville, Queensland, five days earlier. , rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" , , - , Kaz II, Peter Tunstead , style="text-align:center;" , 69 , - , Kaz II, James Tunstead , style="text-align:center;" , 63 , - , data-sort-value="2008-11-09" , 9 November 2008 , ''Tai Ching 21'' fishing boat crew , style="text-align:center;" , Various , Kiribati , The burnt and abandoned wreck of the ''Tai Ching 21'', a Taiwanese fishing boat, was found drifting on 9 November 2008 near Kiribati. It was assumed that when the fire proved beyond their ability to control, the 29-member crew evacuated using the lifeboat and three rafts that were missing. However, no distress call was received and an extensive search of the surrounding seas did not locate any of the crew or the lifeboats. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite news, url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7747305.stm, title=Hopes dim for 29 Asian fishermen, date=25 November 2008, publisher=BBC, access-date=8 March 2011 , - , data-sort-value="2009-01-01" , 1 January 2009 , Jure Šterk , style="text-align:center;" , 72 ,

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

, In December 2007, Slovenian sailor Šterk left Tauranga in New Zealand to sail solo around the world on his yacht ''Lunatic''. His last radio message was heard on 1 January 2009. ''Lunatic'' was spotted on 26 January, approximately {{cvt, 1000, nmi, km off the coast of

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

. The boat was damaged and there was no sign of Šterk. Three months later, on 30 April 2009, ''Lunatic'' was found adrift by the crew of the science vessel RV Roger Revelle, RV ''Roger Revelle'', {{convert, 500, mi south-eastern on position: {{Coord, 32, 18, 0, S, 91, 07, 0, E, display=inline. After boarding, it was found that the last log entry was made on 2 January 2009. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite news , url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1390877 , title=Hope lost for round-the-world sailor , date=4 February 2009 , agency=NZPA , work=Stuff.co.nz , access-date=8 October 2011 , - , rowspan="3" data-sort-value="2009-02-28" , 1 March 2009 , Marquis Cooper , style="text-align:center;" , 26 , rowspan="3" , Off the coast of Clearwater, Florida, U.S. , rowspan="3" , Cooper, an American football linebacker, Smith, a defensive end, and Bleakley presumably died in a boating accident, in which only one man, Not Without Hope, Nick Schuyler, survived. , rowspan="3" style="text-align:center", Death and disbelief: Sole survivor of accident that killed three tells his story
/ref> , - , Corey Smith (American football), Corey Smith , style="text-align:center;" , 29 , - , Will Bleakley , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , - , data-sort-value="2009-11-09" , 9 November 2009 , Hubert Marcoux , style="text-align:center;" , 68 , Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean , Sailing solo on his boat the ''Mon Pays'', Marcoux left the Eastern Passage on 9 November 2009 to voyage from Nova Scotia to Bermuda. When he did not arrive, a search was conducted by Canadian and U.S. aircraft. Members of the Air National Guard later joined the search. Three days were spent scouring the ocean between Virginia and Bermuda. Officials said that he likely encountered a series of storms with wind gusts of more than 110 kilometers an hour and waves measuring 10 meters in height during his trip. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2011-03-22" , 22 March 2011 , Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam, Rebecca Coriam , style="text-align:center;" , 24 ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

near coast of Mexico , Coriam, an English crew member aboard the cruise ship ''Disney Wonder'', was last seen when a security camera in the crew lounge recorded her having an upsetting telephone conversation. Some reports suggest she went overboard, but there is other evidence that she may have still been alive the following May. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite news , last=Ronson, first=Jon, author-link=Jon Ronson, title=Rebecca Coriam: lost at sea, url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/nov/11/rebecca-coriam-lost-at-sea, work=The Guardian , date=11 November 2011, access-date=15 March 2012 , - , data-sort-value="2012-06-20" , 20 June 2012 , Guma Aguiar , style="text-align:center;" , 35 , Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. , Aguiar, a Brazilian-born American industrialist and investor in the Beitar Jerusalem F.C., Beitar Jerusalem Football Club, was reported missing on 20 June 2012 after his unoccupied fishing boat was found on the coast of Fort Lauderdale. He was declared legally dead on 29 January 2015. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , 7 April 2013 , Jerry Krause (missionary), Jerry Krause , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown , Off the coast of West Africa , Krause, an American Christian missionary and pilot mostly known for his work with the Sahel Aviation Service in Mali, disappeared on 7 April 2013 when his plane was reported missing off the coast in West Africa while en route to São Tomé International Airport. Since no wreckage has been found, authorities believe he might have been kidnapped. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2013-06-04" , 4 June 2013 , Evi Nemeth , style="text-align:center;" , 73 ,

Tasman Sea The Tasman Sea (Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abe ...

, Nemeth, an American Computer engineering, computer engineer often described as the matriarch of system administration, disappeared along with several others aboard the yacht ''Niña'' that was between New Zealand and Australia on 4 June 2013. No trace of them has ever been found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2014-12-01" , {{circa 1 December 2014 , Dick Conant , style="text-align:center;" , 63 , Outer Banks , Conant was an American boater who disappeared near the Outer Banks sometime around 1 December 2014 while on an eight month trip from Plattsburgh, New York to south Florida. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2015-08-02" , 2 August 2015 , Natalia Molchanova , style="text-align:center;" , 53 , Formentera, Spain , Molchanova, a Russian champion Freediving, free diver and multiple record holder, disappeared during a private diving lesson, likely swept away by water currents. Despite efforts from a search party, her body has never been located and she was declared dead in absentia. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2018-09-09" , 9 September 2018 , Daniel Küblböck , style="text-align:center;" , 33 , Labrador Sea , The German pop singer apparently jumped off the cruise ship ''AIDAluna'' into the sea and disappeared during a cruise from Hamburg to New York on 9 September 2018. Despite an intense search, he was not found, and the search was abandoned after eighty hours as it was deemed impossible that he could still be alive. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2019-01-21" , 21 January 2019 , 2019 English Channel Piper PA-46 crash, David Ibbotson , style="text-align:center;" , Unknown ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, David Ibbotson was the pilot of a Piper PA-46 which, while flying with Argentine football player Emiliano Sala, crashed in the English Channel near Alderney. Sala's body was found, but Ibbotson's was never found. David Henderson, the flight's organizer, was charged with endangering the safety of an aircraft in connection to this case. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2021-03-08" , 8 March 2021 , Disappearance of Sarm Heslop, Sarm Heslop , style="text-align:center;" , 41 , United States Virgin Islands , Heslop disappeared from a catamaran moored off the coast of Saint John, one of the US Virgin Islands, between 22:00 on 7 March 2021 and 02:30 on the 8 March. Searches for her have proved fruitless. If she did go into the water, then she was only a maximum of {{convert, 200, m from the shore. , style="text-align:center",

Solved cases

Below is a list of people who were found, dead or alive, or their fate became known, after disappearing mysteriously at sea.

13th century–1969

{, class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" , - style="text-align:center;" ! width="105" , Date ! width="250" , Person(s) ! width="50" , Age ! width="150" , Missing from ! width="500px" , Circumstances ! width="10px" , {{abbr, Ref., References , - , data-sort-value="1475-09-01" , September 1475 , Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter , style="text-align:center;" , 45 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, House of Lancaster, Lancastrian leader during the English Wars of the Roses. Holland fell overboard from unknown reasons and drowned in the English Channel while returning to Britain, having served within Edward IV of England, Edward IV's 1475 expedition to France. He was later found floating in the sea between Dover and Calais. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1544-01-01" , 1544 , Hugh Willoughby , style="text-align:center;" , unknown , Arctic Sea , English soldier and voyager who led a fleet of three vessels in search of a north-east route towards the Far East and his boat on route to Sápmi, Lapland. While neither the wreckage or his body were ever recovered, Willoughby's journal was. It has been suggested that he may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning. , style="text-align:center", {{cite book, last1=Evans, first1=James, title=Tudor Adventurers: An Arctic Voyage of Discovery, date=2014, publisher=Pegasus Books, location=New York , - , data-sort-value="1695-01-01" , 1695 , Ouzel Galley , style="text-align:center;" , Various , Uncertain, possibly Smyrna , The ''Ouzel'' was last seen in the autumn of 1695 leaving dock in Dublin under the command of Capt Eoghan Massey of Waterford. She reappeared—supposedly the triumphant victim of high seas piracy—in 1700. According to her captain, he and his crew had been commanded and forced to looting, loot several locations including North Africa over the span of several years before overpowering their captors, retaking their vessel, and returning home unharmed. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1704-01-01" , 1704 , Alexander Selkirk , style="text-align:center;" , 28 , Robinson Crusoe Island , Scottish

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

officer and

privateer A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or deleg ...

was stranded on an unknown island in 1704 and was rescued five years later after he was imprisoned. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1820-11-20" , 20 November 1820 , ''

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'' crew , style="text-align:center;" , various ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, American

whaler A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales. Terminology The term ''whaler'' is mostly historic. A handful of nations continue with industrial whaling, and one, Japa ...

ship who was sunk by a

sperm whale The sperm whale or cachalot (''Physeter macrocephalus'') is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus ''Physeter'' and one of three extant species in the sperm whale famil ...

, leaving the 20-man crew stranded at sea for 93 days. The few surviving crew members were rescued by another whaler, the ''Dauphin'', on 15 February 1821, and later told of their experiences in books. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , 1848 , Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte , style="text-align:center;" , 34–35 , King William Island, Canada , An English officer of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

and polar explorer who, from 1845, served under Sir

John Franklin Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through ...

as Lieutenant commander (Royal Navy), Second Lieutenant on the {{HMS, Erebus, 1826, 2 during the Franklin's lost expedition, Franklin expedition to discover the

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...

. He is believed to have died in either 1847 or 1848 as human remains we later found and confirmed to have been his. , style="text-align:center;", , - , data-sort-value="1848-04-26" , c. May 1848 , John Gregory (engineer), John Gregory , style="text-align:center;" , 42 , King William Island, Canada , Gregory was an English engineer who served aboard HMS ''Erebus'' during the 1845 Franklin Expedition, which sought to explore uncharted parts of the

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The eastern route along the Arc ...

. His remains were identified via Genetic testing, DNA analysis in 2021. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1897-01-01" , 1897 , Barney Barnato , style="text-align:center;" , 46 , At sea, near the island of Madeira , British people, British entrepreneur and Randlord who disappeared at sea after mysteriously falling overboard was later found dead on 14 June 1897 at sea near Madeira, Portugal. , style="text-align:center;" , ''Who do you think you are?'' — Esther Rantzen
on BBC.co.uk. Accessed 3 September 2008. , - , data-sort-value="1913-09-29" , 29 September 1913 , Rudolf Diesel , style="text-align:center;" , 55 ,

English Channel The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...

, The German inventor of the diesel engine disappeared from the steamer SS ''Dresden'' on the way from Antwerp to London. He retired to his cabin at about 10 p.m. and was never seen alive again. Ten days later, a corpse was found in the North Sea near Norway, but only personal items could be retrieved. On 13 October, these items were identified by Rudolf's son Eugen as belonging to his father. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1916-01-01" , 1916 , Michael Joseph McNally , style="text-align:center;" , 56 , Chesapeake Bay , Michael Joseph McNally, a United States Marine Sergeant#United States, Sergeant disappeared between 1 and 2 November 1916, while he was aboard a Baltimore Steam Packet Company steamer, and roughly three weeks later he was found dead. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1918-01-01" , 1918 , Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, Peter Tessem , style="text-align:center;" , unknown , Cape Chelyuskin , Norwegian carpenter who, together with a seaman named Paul Knutsen, disappeared in Cape Chelyuskin after an expedition to the Arctic. Four years later, a mummified corpse with a golden watch engraved with Tessem's named was found, indicating that it was his remains. Knutsen's body was never found. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1924-11-15" , 15 November 1924 , Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral , style="text-align:center;" , 43 , Northern Sea , Portuguese aviator who, together with Gago Coutinho, conducted the First aerial crossing of the South Atlantic in 1922. Two years later, Cabral and his co-pilot would disappear while flying over the English channel, with only partial remains of their plane's wreckage recovered later on. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1928-07-04" , 4 July 1928 , Alfred Loewenstein , style="text-align:center;" , 51 , North Sea , Belgian financier who fell out of his private plane while travelling from Croydon to Brussels. His body was found 15 days later near Boulogne,

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1941-11-01" , November 1941 , Thomas Welsby Clark , style="text-align:center;" , 21 , Christmas Island , Royal Australian Navy sailor aboard HMAS Sydney (D48), HMAS ''Sydney'' who died during a battle with the German cruiser German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, ''Kormoran''. His body washed ashore on 6 February 1942, but remained unidentified until 19 November 2021. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1941-12-08" , 8 December 1941 , Robert Tills , style="text-align:center;" , 23 , Malalang Bay, Philippines , United States Navy, USN officer and pilot who became the first American naval officer killed during the Philippines campaign (1941–1942), Battle of the Philippines. His body was lost at sea, but was recovered in November 2007 and positively identified in December 2008. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1942-11-23" , 23 November 1942 , Poon Lim , style="text-align:center;" , 24 , Off the coast of Belém, Brazil , Chinese steward working on the British ship SS Benlomond (1922), SS ''Benlomond'', which was sunk by German submarine U-172. Lim managed to escape, but Lim found himself on a wooden raft with limited supplies, drifting across the sea for 133 days before being rescued on 5 April 1943. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1943-02-01" , February 1943 , Sam LoPresti , style="text-align:center;" , 26 ,

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

, American ice hockey goaltender who was one of the few surviving sailors of the sunken vessel SS ''Roger B. Taney'', which he boarded as part of his service in the Navy. LoPresti and other survivors were adrift in the sea for 42 days, before they were rescued off the coast of Brazil. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1943-01-01" , 1943 , Juran Hisao , style="text-align:center;" , 41 ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, Japanese author of popular fiction who pioneered the use of black humor in the country. He was conscripted by the Imperial Japanese Navy and sent to fight in the Pacific, where he was declared missing in action. However, he safely returned to Chōshi a year later. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1943-05-27" , 27 May 1943 , Louis Zamperini , style="text-align:center;" , 26 , Oahu, Hawaii, U.S. , Olympic distance runner and soldier serving on the B-24 bomber ''Green Hornet''. Due to mechanical difficulties, the bomber crashed into the sea, killing most of the crew aside from Zamperini and two others. The trio drifted across the sea for 47 days, during which one man died, before Zamperini and his companion were captured by the Imperial Japanese Navy off the coast of the Marshall Islands. Zamperini was then held in POW camps until the end of the war. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1943-04-22" , 22 April 1943 , Eddie Thompson (Canadian football), Edward Blake Thompson , style="text-align:center;" , 25 , North Atlantic Ocean , A member of the Ontario Rugby Football Union. Thompson served within the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. He was one of eighty-six individuals lost at sea when the ship upon which he was traveling, the SS Amerika, was torpedoed by the German Submarine U-306 south of Cape Farewell, Greenland , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1943-06-13" , 13 June 1943 , Nathan Bedford Forrest III , style="text-align:center;" , 38 , Kiel, Nazi Germany , Brigadier general (United States), Brigadier general of the United States Army Air Forces, USAAF who crashlanded in Germany during a bombing raid. His body was found washed up on Ruegen Island several months after he was reported missing. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1944-01-01" , January 1944 , Pappy Boyington , style="text-align:center;" , 31 ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, Pappy Boyington was an American Fighter pilot, combat pilot during World War II who was shot down in January 1944 was captured and was detained for a year and a half. Boyington was released after the Surrender of Japan. , style="text-align:center;" , {{cite news, url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DhwKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rUoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4203%2C4464174 , newspaper=Ellensburg Daily Record, agency=Associated Press, title=Boyington, Marine ace, reported alive in Japan, date=29 August 1945, page=1 , - , data-sort-value="1950-10-01" , 1 October 1950 , Robert W. Langwell , style="text-align:center;" , unknown , Near Chuksan-ri, South Korea , United States Navy, USN seaman who was declared missing in action after falling overboard after the ship he was ensigned to, the minesweeper USS Magpie (AMS-25), USS ''Magpie'', struck a mine and sank. Langwell's body washed ashore and was buried by villagers, with his remains returned to the United States in 2008. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1961-11-12" , 12 November 1961 , Bluebelle (ship), Terry Jo Duperrault , style="text-align:center;" , 11 , The Bahamas , Duperrault was the single survivor of the massacre aboard the ''Bluebelle'', in which her parents and two siblings, as well as the captain's wife, were murdered by the captain, Julian Harvey. She was rescued three-and-a-half days later by the ''HMS Searcher (D40), Captain Theo'', and later told what had truly happened on board. Upon learning this, Harvey, who by then had returned to Miami, committed suicide. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1963-08-27" , 27 August 1963 , Sunny Ang#Disappearance of Jenny Cheok, Jenny Cheok , style="text-align:center;" , 21 , Sisters' Islands, Singapore , Cheok, a bar waitress, was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend, Grand Prix driver and law student Sunny Ang, during a boat trip to Sisters' Island. While Cheok's body has never been found, Ang was tried, convicted and ultimately hanged for the murder. , style="text-align:center;" ,

1970–2009

{, class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" , - style="text-align:center;" ! width="105" , Date ! width="250" , Person(s) ! width="50" , Age ! width="150" , Missing from ! width="500px" , Circumstances ! width="10px" , {{abbr, Ref., References , - , data-sort-value="1972-06-15" , 15 June 1972 , Dougal Robertson , style="text-align:center;" , 48 , Galápagos Islands , Scottish sailor who was on a voyage with his family and a crew member, when their schooner was sunk by killer whales. The group spent 38 days as castaways, before being rescued by a Japanese fishing vessel. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1973-03-04" , 4 March 1973 , Maurice and Maralyn Bailey , style="text-align:center;" , 32 (both) , Galápagos Islands , English couple who were sailing towards New Zealand, but their yacht was capsized by a whale off the coast of the Galápagos Islands. The couple remained adrift on a dinghy for 117 days, before being rescued by the South Korean fishing boat ''Weolmi 306'' on 30 June 1973. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1978-01-01" , 1978 , Ambrogio Fogar , style="text-align:center;" , 37 ,

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, Italians, Italian sailor and writer who began a journey from east to west around the world with his friend, journalist Mauro Mancini, but their boat was capsized by killer whales. The pair spent two weeks adrift on a raft before being rescued. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1978-11-16" , 16 November 1978 , Alain Colas , style="text-align:center;" , 34 , Unknown , ''Colas'' passed the Azores, he sent his last radio message saying that everything was alright and sailing well. Neither his boat ''Manureva'' nor his body were ever found. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1982-10-01" , October 1982 , Deborah Scaling Kiley , style="text-align:center;" , 32 , North Carolina coast, U.S. , American sailor and businesswoman whose boat, ''The Trashman'', sank due to heavy weather off the coast of North Carolina, with multiple crew members dying. Kiley and the other survivors were rescued by a Soviet cargo ship five days later. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1989-06-04" , 4 June 1989 , ''Rose-Noëlle'' crew , style="text-align:center;" , various , Pacific Ocean , The trimaran, which was occupied by four New Zealand nationals, capsized off the coast of New Zealand and leaving the men drifting on the wreckage for 119 days before they managed to reach land. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="1991-11-01" , November 1991 , Robert Maxwell , style="text-align:center;" , 68 , Canary Islands, Spain , Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, fraudster and suspected spy who disappeared in the early hours of 4 November 1991 while on board his yacht, the ''Dancing Hare, Lady Ghislaine''. Later that day, his body was found floating in the ocean. An inquest ruled that his death was caused by a heart attack combined with accidental drowning. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="1998-06-13" , 13 June 1998 , Éric Tabarly , style="text-align:center;" , 66 ,

Irish Sea The Irish Sea or , gv, Y Keayn Yernagh, sco, Erse Sie, gd, Muir Èireann , Ulster-Scots: ''Airish Sea'', cy, Môr Iwerddon . is an extensive body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Ce ...

, French Navy officer and member of the Yacht Club de France who was celebrating the centenary of his boat, the ''Pen Duick'', but was thrown overboard by a wave and drowned. His body was found in the water a week later. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2004-11-29" , c. 29 November 2004 , Erhart Aten , style="text-align:center;" , 72 , Chuuk State , A Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesian politician who served as the first elected Governor of Chuuk State, Governor of Chuuk State (then called Truk). Aten and three other men were lost at sea while crossing Chuuk lagoon to Weno island when their boat was hit by a sudden storm. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2005-06-30" , 30 June 2005 , Disappearance of Patrick McDermott, Patrick McDermott , style="text-align:center;" , 48 , Off the coast of Los Angeles , Boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John, disappeared after going on an overnight fishing trip. The United States Coast Guard concluded he was likely lost at sea. Subject of unsubstantiated claims to have faked his own death. , style="text-align:center;" , , - , data-sort-value="2005-10-28" , 28 October 2005 , Jesús Vidaña , style="text-align:center;" , 27 ,

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

, Mexican fisherman who, together with two other men, was fishing when their boat was blown off course and caused them to go adrift. The men sailed across the Pacific Ocean for nine months before being rescued by a Taiwanese fishing vessel near the Marshall Islands. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2009-01-04" , 4 January 2009 , Sonny Fai , style="text-align:center;" , 20 , Te Henga (Bethells Beach),

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

, Professional rugby player for the New Zealand Warriors who disappeared while trying to save his brother and four cousins from a rip current. While his body was never found, he was declared drowned a few months later. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2009-01-26" , 26 January 2009 , Murder of Bob Chappell, Bob Chappell , style="text-align:center;" , 65 , Hobart, Tasmania,

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

, A radiation oncology medical physicist was killed by his partner aboard a yacht named ''Four Winds''. Though Chappell's body has never been, found his partner, Susan Neill-Fraser, was convicted of the crime. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2009-02-28" , 28 February 2009 , Not Without Hope, Nick Schuyler , style="text-align:center;" , 25 , Off the coast of Clearwater, Florida, U.S. , Sole survivor of a boating accident during which his three other companions (NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith (American football), Corey Smith, and Schuyler's best friend William Bleakley) succumbed to hypothermia and their bodies were later lost at sea. Schuyler co-wrote a book about the experience in 2010, titled ''Not Without Hope''. , style="text-align:center",

2010–present

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Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

. He remained adrift until 30 January 2014, when he was finally found washed ashore at the Marshall Islands' Ebon Atoll, and returned to his home country. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2014-03-08" , 8 March 2014 , Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , style="text-align:center;" , various: 1–76 , South China Sea , A commercial Boeing 777-200ER airliner which disappeared above the South China Sea on 8 March 2014, carrying 239 passengers and crew. The precise cause of the loss of the aircraft is undetermined, and only eighteen pieces of debris conclusively determined as belonging to the aircraft have ever been recovered. It is now believed to be located in the southern Indian Ocean. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2017-08-10" , 10–11 August 2017 , Murder of Kim Wall, Kim Wall , style="text-align:center;" , 30 , Køge Bugt, Denmark , The Swedish freelance journalist disappeared after she boarded the submarine of Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen, who murdered her and dismembered her remains. After the submarine crashed and he was rescued, Wall's remains were found at sea, leading to him being charged, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2017-11-15" , 15 November 2017 , Disappearance of ARA San Juan, ARA ''San Juan'' crew , style="text-align:center;" , various , South Atlantic , The ARA San Juan (S-42), ARA ''San Juan'' was an Argentine submarine which mysteriously vanished while performing a training exercise. Despite search efforts, assisted by several nations, the fate of the submarine and its crew remained unknown until a year later, when marine robotics company Ocean Infinity discovered the sunken wreck. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2020-04-02" , 2 April 2020 , Maeve Kennedy McKean , style="text-align:center;" , 40 , Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, U.S. , Public health official and human rights activist who served as the Executive Director of the Global Health Initiatives, who disappeared together with her son while canoeing. Her body was recovered 4 days later by authorities, and her son's two days after that. , style="text-align:center", , - , data-sort-value="2022-01-21" , 21 January 2022 , Jean-Jacques Savin , style="text-align:center;" , 76 ,

Azores ) , motto =( en, "Rather die free than subjected in peace") , anthem= ( en, "Anthem of the Azores") , image_map=Locator_map_of_Azores_in_EU.svg , map_alt=Location of the Azores within the European Union , map_caption=Location of the Azores wi ...

, Adventurer who embarked on a three month journey from Sagres (Vila do Bispo), Sagres, Portugal to

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in th ...

on 1 January 2022. On the 21st, Savin issued two distress calls, with last contact at 00:34 that morning. His boat was discovered overturned later that day. Despite being reported as having been found dead in the boat's cabin, it was later clarified he had not been recovered. , style="text-align:center", {{cite news , last1=Paybarah , first1=Azi , title=French Adventurer Attempting to Row Solo Across the Atlantic Is Missing , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/23/world/europe/french-atlantic-rower-missing-jean-jacques-savin.html , access-date=24 January 2022 , work=The New York Times , date=23 January 2022

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