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1872: The Mary Celeste disappeared.
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1909: The Spray disappeared too.
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1917: SS Timandra - heading for Buenos Aires from Norfolk disappeared ; it was carrying coal; the 21 members of the crew were never found ; there was no radio signal despite the possibility to send messages.
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1918: USS Cyclops disappeared; there was a storm in the area, but the last message sent was "Weather fair, all well " and even the US navy calls this "one of the sea's unsolved mysteries. "
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1921: Cargo ship Carroll A. Deering ran aground at Cape Hatteras, the crew having disappeared without a trace.
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1925: SS Cotopaxi vanished.
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1926: SS Suduffco never came back, perhaps lost in bad weather (a captain in the area called it "The worst weather I've ever seen").
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1938: HMS Anglo Australian heading for British Columbia from Cardiff, Wales disappeared off Azores after signalling "passing Fayal this afternoon. All well".
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1942: French submarine Surcouf and freighter Thompson Lykes both disappeared near Panama Canal.
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1945: Navy Avengers left without coming back.
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1948: SS Samkey gave position as 41o48' N 24o W ; signaled "all well", then it disappeared.
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31 January 1948: Tudor IV Tiger was lost with 31 lives.
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27 December 1948: Douglas DC-3 NC16002 was lost with 28 passengers and crew.
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17 January 1949: Second Tudor IV, Star Ariel, vanished without a trace.
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1950: Giant US Air Force Goldemaster vanished too.
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1950: American freighter, SS Sandra (350 ft), apparently sank without a trace after passing St. Augustine Florida en route for Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
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1952: British York transport plane disappeared with 33 aboard.
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30 October 1954: US Navy Lockheed Constellation Flight 441 vanishesd with 42 aboard.
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1956: US Navy seaplane, Martin P5M, disappeared with a crew of ten.
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14 October 1961: US Air Force SAC B-52 bomber Pogo 22 never turned back.
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1962: idem for US Air Force KB-50 tanker plane.
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1963: Marine Sulphur Queen vanished, probably off Dry Tortugas ; carrying molten sulphur, and possibly unseaworthy.
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1967: Military YC-122, converted to cargo plane, was lost.
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1967: cabin cruiser Witchcraft disappeared one mile off Miami.
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1970: French freighter Milton Latrides disappeared; sailing from New Orleans to Cape Town; carrying vegetable oils and caustic soda.
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1972: German freighter Anita (20,000 tons), vanished with crew of 32; identical ship Norse Variant (both carrying coal) was lost at same time.
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1976: SS Sylvia L. Ossa was lost in heavy sea 140 miles west of Bermuda.
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1978: Douglas DC-3 Argosy Airlines Flight 902 with four passengers and crew vanished off radar scope while beginning approach for landing.
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1980: SS Poet; carrying grain to Egypt, was lost in storm but Marine Inquiry Board could not state firm cause; there were no survivors.
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1995: Inter-island freighter Jamanic K (built 1943) was reported lost after leaving Cap Haitien.
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1997: Passengers disappeared from a German yacht.
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1999: Freighter Genesis vanished after sailing from Port of Spain to St; cargo included 465 tons of water tanks.