List of missing ships

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SS Waratah and its 221 crew and passengers were never heard from after 27 July 1909. Its wreck has yet to be found.

This is a list of missing ships and wrecks. If it is known that the ship in question sank, then its wreck has not yet been located.

Ships are usually declared lost and assumed wrecked after a period of disappearance. The disappearance of a ship usually implies all hands lost. Without witnesses or survivors, the mystery surrounding the fate of missing ships has inspired many items of nautical lores and the creation of paranormal zones such as the Bermuda Triangle. In many cases a probable cause has been deduced, such as a known storm or warfare, but it could not be confirmed without witnesses or sufficient documentation.

Many disappearances occurred before wireless telegraphy became available in navigation applications in the late 1890s, which would have allowed crew to send a distress call. Sudden disasters such as military strike, collision, rogue wave, or piracy could also prevent a crew from sending a distress call and reporting a location.

Among the many missing ships on the list are submarines, which have limited communication, and provide the crew almost no chance of survival if struck by disaster underwater.

The advancement of radar technology by the end of World War II and today's Global Positioning System make it more likely that a distressed vessel will be located.

Most vessels currently listed as missing disappeared over a vast search area and/or deep water and there is little commercial interest in searching for the vessels and salvaging the contents. Often the search and recovery costs are prohibitive even with today's sonar and wrecking technologies and could not be compensated by salvaged valuables, if indeed there were any onboard. The search for these types of missing vessels is usually motivated by historical, legal or acturial interests requiring the aid of government funding such as in the 2008 discovery of HMAS Sydney and Kormoran[1].

The list is organised by the marine region in which the disappearance or sinking occurred, or the closest country to the area. The year of the disappearance, last known location, and possible location of the wreck are included.

Contents

[edit] Africa

[edit] North America

 Canada

[edit] South America

[edit] Antarctica

[edit] Asia

[edit] Europe

[edit] Oceania

 Australia

[edit] High Seas

The following lists contain entries that could not be referenced to an area close to any one particular country or an area definitely in international waters.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "PM offers reward to find sunken warship". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 August 2005. Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/08/14/1123957949752.html. 
  2. ^ "The Loss of the Waratah. The Times 23 February 1911 p.24
  3. ^ Never heard of - Mysteries of the Atlantic Ferry
  4. ^ L’Acadien II - Update[dead link]
  5. ^ Strangely Enough, C. B. Colby, Oak Tree Press, Sydney, 1959 ISBN 978-0-8069-3918-6
  6. ^ Marine Sulphur Queen Coast Guard Report Summary of Findings
  7. ^ Albany
  8. ^ Cyclop
  9. ^ a b c d e f http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/nourse.htm Nourse Line
  10. ^ Grocott, Terence, Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras, Caxton Editions, Great Britain: 2002. ISBN 978-1-84067-164-3
  11. ^ Insurgent
  12. ^ Lynx
  13. ^ Nereus
  14. ^ Pickering
  15. ^ Proteus
  16. ^ Saratoga
  17. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-196
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  19. ^ Runner
  20. ^ Sword fish
  21. ^ Grayling
  22. ^ Porpoise
  23. ^ Snook
  24. ^ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Sickle of the S class
  25. ^ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Simoom of the S class
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  27. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-246
  28. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-1
  29. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-22
  30. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-54
  31. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-122
  32. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-240
  33. ^ a b uboat.net - Boats - U-337
  34. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-376
  35. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-455
  36. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-479
  37. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-519
  38. ^ "Remember". Cymric and 11 crew. Maritime Institute of Ireland. http://www.mariner.ie/history/remember/kenneth-king-paintings/cymric. Retrieved 19 December 2011. 
  39. ^ a b uboat.net - Boats - U-703
  40. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-745
  41. ^ Semmes, Raphael, The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, Carleton, 1864, Digitized by Digital Scanning Incorporated, 2001, ISBN 978-1-58218-353-4
  42. ^ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Seahorse of the S class
  43. ^ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Snapper of the S class
  44. ^ a b c http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/nsw-main.html Shipwrecks of New South Wales
  45. ^ Australian Shipwrecks - vol 1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 978-0-589-07112-7 p50
  46. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/tas-main.html Shipwrecks of Tasmania
  47. ^ a b http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/furneaux-main.html Furneaux Group Shipwrecks
  48. ^ a b c http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/macquarie-main.html Macquarie Island Shipwrecks
  49. ^ King Island - Mainframe
  50. ^ http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/kent-main.html Kent Group Shipwrecks
  51. ^ Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9. 
  52. ^ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine USS Gudgeon of the Gar class
  53. ^ Eunson, Keith (1974). The wreck of the General Grant. A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd. ISBN 0-589-0080-3. 
  54. ^ Foreign Correspondent - 27 March 2007: PNG - The Search for the AE1
  55. ^ Amberjack
  56. ^ Grampus
  57. ^ S-28
  58. ^ Voyage of the Active
  59. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-355
  60. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-398
  61. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-116
  62. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-184
  63. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-192
  64. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-338
  65. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-381
  66. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-420
  67. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-529
  68. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-553
  69. ^ uboat.net - Boats - U-1226
  70. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/nalosses.htm North Atlantic passenger steamship losses 1841 to 1978
  71. ^ Memorials & Monuments in St Ann's Church - HMS Atalanta
  72. ^ Epervier
  73. ^ a b The Lost Gold Ship - No 67 Autumn 2001 - La Trobe Journal[dead link]
  74. ^ Seefunkstelle Lashcarrier München / DEAT
  75. ^ Dudley Dix on seaworthiness
  76. ^ uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Stonehenge of the S class
  77. ^ Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 978-0-589-07112-7 p52
  78. ^ The S Y Aurora...All that Remains
  79. ^ Conestoga
  80. ^ Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 978-0-589-07112-7 p40
  81. ^ Kete
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