Throughout history, people have mysteriously disappeared at sea, many on voyages aboard floating vessels or traveling via aircraft. The following is a list of known individuals who have mysteriously vanished in open waters, and whose whereabouts remain unknown. In most ocean deaths, bodies are never recovered, but this fact alone does not make their disappearance mysterious. For example, the victims of the RMS Titanic disaster are not considered to have disappeared mysteriously at sea.
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data-sort-value="-100-01-01" | 2nd century BC | Eudoxus of Cyzicus | Unknown | Gulf of Aden | Greek navigator who explored the Arabian Sea for Ptolemy VIII Physcon, who is thought to have perished during a journey to circumnavigate Africa, but this has not been definitively confirmed. | [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1291 | Vandino Vivaldi | Unknown | Atlantic Ocean | The Genoese sailor and explorer brothers were lost while attempting the first oceanic journey from Europe to Asia. Their two galleys sailed out of the Mediterranean Sea and into the Atlantic Ocean, but were not heard from again. | [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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data-sort-value="1307-01-01" | 1307 or 1312 | Muhammad ibn Qu | Unknown | Atlantic Ocean | The eighth mansa of the Mali Empire, who was said by his successor Mansa Musa to have disappeared in an attempt to discover the limits of the Atlantic Ocean. This account has fueled speculation that Musa's predecessor reached the Americas, but no evidence of his fate is known. | [3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1346-01-01" | 1346 | Jaume Ferrer | Unknown | Atlantic Ocean | Majorcan sailor who sailed down the west coast of Africa in search of the "River of Gold". The results of his quest, including his fate, are unknown. | [4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1487-01-01" | 1487 | João Afonso do Estreito | Unknown | Atlantic Ocean | Portuguese sailor who was the co-captain of an expedition aiming to explore the Atlantic Ocean. He and his Flemish partner Ferdinand Van Olm set sail, but never returned, and were presumed lost at sea. | [5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1499-01-01" | 1499 | John Cabot | ~49 | Northwest Passage | Cabot, an Italian explorer, departed with five ships during an expedition to find a western route from Europe to Asia. There are no known records of what happened to him and his expedition after that; it is not known if they disappeared at sea, remained in North America, or returned safely to Europe. | [6] [7] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1500-24-05" | 24 March 1500 | Vasco de Ataíde | Unknown | Cape Verde or Cape of Good Hope | Portuguese sailor Vasco de Ataíde's ship was part of Pedro Álvares Cabral's 1500 expedition to India. On 24 March, the ship he captained and its 150 crew disappeared after sailing west toward Brazil. The chronicler of the expedition said that there were no strong or contrary winds that could have caused the loss. | [8] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1501-01-01" | 1501 | 50–51 | Northwest Passage | Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real disappeared on an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia. Two of his ships returned to Lisbon, but the third, with Gaspar on board, was lost and never heard from again. | [9] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1502-01-01" | 1502 | Miguel Corte-Real | 53–54 | Northwest Passage | Miguel Corte-Real, a Portuguese explorer, disappeared while searching for his brother Gaspar. Like his brother, he took three ships and, like his brother's ship, his own was lost and never heard from again. | [10] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1511-01-01" | 1511 | Diego de Nicuesa | Unknown | Caribbean Sea | Nicuesa, a Spanish conquistador and explorer, disappeared along with 17 crewmen while en route to Santo Domingo, after being denied entry to the colonial settlement of Santa María la Antigua del Darién. | [11] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1526-01-01" | 1526 | Francisco de Hoces | Unknown | Pacific Ocean | De Hoces was the commander of the San Lesmes which was one of the seven ships of the Loaísa expedition under García Jofre de Loaísa. It has been speculated that the San Lesmes, last seen in the Pacific Ocean in late May, reached Easter Island, the Polynesian archipelago, or even New Zealand. | [12] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1579-01-01" | 1579 | Ikegusuku Antō | Unknown | East China Sea | A bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Ikegusuku Antō was sent as an envoy to China, but his ship was caught in a storm and disappeared in the sea in 1579 and was never seen again. | [13] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1611-06-23" | 23 June 1611 | Henry Hudson | 45–46 | Northwest Passage | Hudson went on multiple expeditions of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States, searching for the Northwest Passage. In 1611, after wintering on the shore of James Bay, Hudson wanted to press on to the west, but most of his crew mutinied. The mutineers cast Hudson, his teenage son and seven others adrift; the Hudsons and their companions were never seen again. | [14] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1638-01-01" | 1638 | Urasoe Chōri | Unknown | Satsuma Domain | A member of Sanshikan, Urasoe Chōri went on a boat trip to Satsuma, but his ship was caught in a storm and disappeared in the sea. He is believed to have drowned. | [15] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1671-01-01" | 1671 | Roche Braziliano | 40–41 | Location unknown | A Dutch pirate born in the town of Groningen, Roche Braziliano, whose career lasted from 1654 until 1671, disappeared during that year, and was never seen again. | [16] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1686-04-01" | April 1686 | Michel de Grammont | 40–41 | Near St. Augustine, Florida, U.S. | The French privateer renowned for attacking Spanish flagships from 1670 to 1686, was lost in a storm together with his entire crew while on a rescue mission to save fellow buccaneer Nicolas Brigaut. | [17] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1688-01-01" | 1688 | John Coxon | Unknown | Jamaica | Coxon, a buccaneer and member of the Brethren of the Coast who was infamous for his various raids on the Spanish Main through the 17th century, turned to hunting pirates in 1682. He, his 97-man crew, and an eighty-ton ship armed with eight guns, mysteriously disappeared in 1688; their fate is unknown. | [18] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1694-02-01" | 1694 | Unknown | Indian Ocean | Ridderschap van Holland arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 9 January 1694, remaining there until 5 February. Ridderschap van Holland sailed from the Cape with a crew of around 300, and two passengers, including Admiral Sir James Couper. She never reached her destination, and was never heard from again. Contemporary rumours suggested that she had sprung her mast rounding the Cape, limped north and been captured by pirates based at Fort Dauphin, near the south-eastern corner of Madagascar. However, Abraham Samuel, the pirate supposedly responsible, did not arrive in the area until 1695. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
data-sort-value="1726" | January 1726 | Various | Indian Ocean | The Aagtekerke, a ship of the Dutch East India Company, left for Batavia in the Dutch East Indies on 27 January 1726, but was lost with all hands and without trace. It was carrying silver coins and precious metals with a total value of 200,000 guilders. There is some evidence from the crew of the wrecked ship that Aagtekerke was wrecked on the Abrolhos Islands, because they found some remains of a Dutch vessel that had been wrecked before them. | [19] [20] |-| data-sort-value="1750-01-01" | 1750 or 1760| Sea Bird| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Rhode Island, U.S.| The Sea Bird, which also went by other names, was a merchant brig that, after a Honduras voyage and then grounding in Rhode Island at Easton's Beach in either 1750 or 1760, had lost its longboat. No people were found living on it; all that was found was a cat and a dog. The crew aboard was never seen again. The ship itself was sold to a merchant of Newport, renamed the Beach Bird under which name she made many voyages.| style="text-align:center;" |[21] [22] [23] |-| data-sort-value="1758-10-28" | 28 October 1758| Edward Moore, 5th Earl of Drogheda| style="text-align:center;" | 56–57| Irish Sea| Edward Moore was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician who went missing in a storm at sea while travelling between Holyhead and Dublin and is believed to have died.| style="text-align:center;" |[24] |-| data-sort-value="1766-10-29" | 29 October 1766| John Stanwix| style="text-align:center;" | 75–76| Atlantic Ocean| The British soldier and politician was lost at sea while travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Holyhead, Wales in a packet boat.| style="text-align:center;" |[25] |-| rowspan="5" data-sort-value="1769-01-01" | c. January 1770| Henry Vansittart| style="text-align:center;" | 37| rowspan="5"|Indian Ocean| rowspan="5"|Vansittart, MP and director of the East India Company, Scrafton and Forde formed a delegation to investigate corruption and reform the British government in India and sailed on the frigate Aurora. Scottish Royal Navy midshipman Robert Pitcairn after whom the Pitcairn Islands are named, and Scottish epic poet William Falconer were also on board. The Aurora disappeared with all hands around January 1770, apparently in a storm. The captain had decided to sail the Mozambique Channel despite bad weather.| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |[26] [27] [28] |-| Luke Scrafton| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown|-| Francis Forde| style="text-align:center;" | 51–52|-| William Falconer| style="text-align:center;" | 37|-| Robert Pitcairn| style="text-align:center;" | 17|-| data-sort-value="1778-01-01" | 1778| Benjamin Church| style="text-align:center;" | 43–44| Caribbean Sea| Church, the first Surgeon General of the United States Army, was imprisoned for communicating with the British in 1776. He was released in 1778, and shortly thereafter disappeared while sailing from Boston.| style="text-align:center;" |[29] |-| data-sort-value="1779-01-01" | 17 December 1779| Thomas Lynch Jr.| style="text-align:center;" | 30| Caribbean Sea| Thomas Lynch Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. In late 1779, he and his wife Elizabeth set sail to Sint Eustatius in the West Indies. The ship disappeared shortly after its departure.| style="text-align:center;" ||-| data-sort-value="1780-01-01" | January 1780| Morgan Connor| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Location unknown| Connor, a Continental Army officer who served as Adjutant General in 1777, was lost at sea in January 1780.| style="text-align:center;" |[30] |-| data-sort-value="1780-12-01" | December 1780| William Palfrey| style="text-align:center;" | 38–39| Atlantic Ocean| William Palfrey was an American Patriot born in 1741. He went missing after getting lost at sea in December 1780 following a business trip to France.| style="text-align:center;" |[31] |-| data-sort-value="1781-12" | c. December 1781| Charles Carpenter| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Location unknown| Carpenter disappeared with the rest of the crew of HMS Necker, presumed foundered while sailing from Saint Helena to the East Indies.| style="text-align:center;" ||-| data-sort-value="1781-03-01" | March 1781| John Young| style="text-align:center;" | 40–41| Caribbean Sea| Young, a captain of the American Continental Navy, was the commander of the USS Saratoga when it vanished at sea during a gale while returning home from present-day Haiti.| style="text-align:center;" |[32] |-| data-sort-value="1788-01-01" | 1788| Jean-François de Galaup (Lapérouse) and his expedition| style="text-align:center;" | 46–47 (Galaup)| Botany Bay, Australia| The French expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse, disappeared after their last stop at Botany Bay (now Sydney), after meeting ships of Britain's First Fleet 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 second trip around the world at Vanikoro, an island in the Santa Cruz group (part of the Solomon Islands) where the survivors may have set up camp.| style="text-align:center;" |[33] [34] |-| data-sort-value="1788-07-01" | July–August 1788| Aimée du Buc de Rivéry| style="text-align:center;" | 20| Caribbean Sea| Rivéry, a French heiress, vanished at sea while returning home to Martinique 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, but this has never been proven.| style="text-align:center;" |[35] |-|data-sort-value="1794" | 1794| Robert Manners Sutton| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Mediterranean Sea| Captain Robert Manners Sutton disappeared with the rest of the crew of HMS Ardent in 1794, believed lost to a fire and explosion.| style="text-align:center;" |[36] |-|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 HMS Hermes on 31 January 1797, presumably foundered during a gale.| style="text-align:center;" ||-|data-sort-value="1799-12-19" | 19 December 1799 or after| Thomas Atkinson| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Atlantic Ocean| Captain Atkinson disappeared with the rest of the crew of Mildred on or after 19 December 1799, while sailing from Jamaica.| style="text-align:center;" |[37] |-| data-sort-value="1800-08-01" | c. September 1800| Patrick Fletcher| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| West Indies| Fletcher was in command of the USS Insurgent 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;" |[38] |-| data-sort-value="1800-08-01" | c. September 1800| Joseph Ingraham| style="text-align:center;" | 37–38| West Indies| Ingraham, an American sailor and maritime fur trader credited with discovering several islands in the Marquesas Islands 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.| style="text-align:center;" |[39] |-| data-sort-value="1779-01-01" | 25 October 1800| Crew of HMS Babet| style="text-align:center;" | Various| Caribbean Sea| HMS Babet was a 20-gun sixth-rate post ship of the British Royal Navy. The vessel and her crew disappeared shortly after departing from Fort Royal Bay, Martinique on 24 October 1800. She is believed to have foundered during a tropical storm.| style="text-align:center;" ||-| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1802" | 1802/1803| George Roper| 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 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;" | |-|William Henry|style="text-align:center;" |Unknown|-| data-sort-value="1803-02-05" | 5 February 1803| George Bass| style="text-align:center;" | 32| Port Jackson, Australia| The British explorer of Australia set sail from Sydney for South America and was never heard from again.| style="text-align:center;" |[40] |-| data-sort-value="1804-12-01" | 1 December 1804| James Tippett| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| English Channel| Hawk, under Tippet's command, and 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;" ||-| data-sort-value="1807" | 1807| James Hawes| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Mediterranean Sea| Moucheron disappeared in the eastern Mediterranean in early 1807, with some accounts specifying the Dardanelles. 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;" ||-| data-sort-value="1807–09" | c. September 1807| John Sedley| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Unknown| HMS Elizabeth disappeared without a trace, presumed to have foundered with all hands.| style="text-align:center;" ||-| data-sort-value="1808–11" | c. November 1808| John Logan| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Unknown| Experiment, and parted company with the fleet in a gale between 20 and 23 November, at -8.5°N 80°W. 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;" |[41] |-| data-sort-value="1809-03-01" | March 1809| Hay MacDowall| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Cape of Good Hope, South Africa| Scottish British Army 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;" |[42] |-| data-sort-value="1809-03" | 13/14 March 1809| John James Ridge| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Indian Ocean| Harrier was in company with her sister ship, about from Rodrigues. Harrier fell behind and was never seen again. She was presumed to have foundered with all hands.| style="text-align:center;" |[43] |-| data-sort-value="1809-02-01" |27 August 1809| J. Hill| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Atlantic Ocean| Captain J. Hill disappeared with the rest of the crew of the Bellona in 1809, while sailing back home to England from Jamaica.| style="text-align:center;" |[44] |-| data-sort-value="1810-02-16" | 16 February 1810 or after| John Bader| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Tasman Sea| Bader, the commander of the ship Active, disappeared after landing a sealing party on the Open Bay Islands and subsequently setting sail for Sydney.| style="text-align:center;" |[45] |-| data-sort-value="1813-01-02" | 2–3 January 1813| Theodosia Burr Alston| style="text-align:center;" | 29| Coast of South Carolina, U.S.| The daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, 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;" |[46] |-| data-sort-value="1814-10-01" | c. October 1814| Johnston Blakeley| style="text-align:center;" | 32–33| Atlantic Ocean| Blakeley, an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812, was in command of the sloop-of-war Wasp when it was lost in the Atlantic in October 1814.| style="text-align:center;" |[47] |-| data-sort-value="1814-02-28" | 28 February 1814| John Davies| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| English Channel| Anacreon was last sighted on 28 February 1814 in the English Channel as she was returning from Lisbon. Soon thereafter, she disappeared without trace in a storm. All aboard were lost.| style="text-align:center;"|[48] |-| data-sort-value="1815-07" | c. July/August 1815| John Yarnall| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Atlantic Ocean|After the Dey signed a treaty, Decatur chose Epervier, under Lieutenant John T. Shubrick, Guerrieres former first lieutenant, 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 two marines.| style="text-align:center;" |[49] |-| 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;" |[50] [51] |-| data-sort-value="1816-07-01" | 8–17 January 1816| Samuel Shaw| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Port Jackson, Australia| The commander of the 90-ton brig Amelia, Shaw disappeared after departing from Port Jackson, Australia on the way to Java and Canton, China, carrying 50 tons of sandalwood and five tons of coal.| style="text-align:center;" |[52] |-| data-sort-value="1816-07-01" | July 1816| George Winney| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Tasman Sea?| The commander of the ship Whale, Winney and two crew members disappeared in July 1816 after heading out of Sydney bound for Hawkesbury.| style="text-align:center;" |[53] |-| 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;" ||-| rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1821-01-28" | 28 January 1821| Obed Hendricks| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| rowspan="3"|Pacific Ocean| rowspan="3"|Sailors on the whaler Essex, which sank in the Pacific on 20 November 1820 after being struck by a sperm whale. 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, but the skeletons were not identified as being theirs.| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |[54] [55] |-| 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| style="text-align:center;" | 49| Off the coast of Ireland| The French military officer and general during the Napoleonic Wars 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;" |[56] |-| data-sort-value="1821-01-01" | 5 February 1823| Jean Lafitte| style="text-align:center;" | 42| Gulf of Honduras| French pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte was granted a commission from the Great Colombia 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;" |[57] |-| data-sort-value="1827-06-01" | June 1827| Douglas Clavering| style="text-align:center;" | 32–33| near Sierra Leone| Clavering, a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer, served as a commander of HMS Redwing when it disappeared near Sierra Leone with all hands, never to be seen again.| style="text-align:center;" |[58] |-| data-sort-value="1831-04-01" | April 1831| Carlo Giuseppe Bertero| style="text-align:center;" | 42| South Pacific Ocean| The Italian naturalist and botanist known for documenting the flora and fauna in the West Indies and South America presumably died in a shipwreck while on a voyage from Tahiti to Chile.| style="text-align:center;" |[59] |-| 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;" |[60] |-| data-sort-value"1840-01-01" | 1840| Rosalie| style="text-align:center;" | Various| Atlantic Ocean| The Rosalie, a large French vessel, was found abandoned with sails set and cargo intact. Its crew had vanished.| style="text-align:center;" |[61] |-|rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1841-01-01" |17 March 1841|Richard Roberts|style="text-align:center;"|37–38|rowspan="3" |Atlantic Ocean|rowspan="3" |Roberts was the captain of the SS President when it disappeared in a gale while returning back to Liverpool from New York. Methodist clergyman Rev. George Grimston Cookman who served as the Chaplain of the Senate and Irish comic actor Tyrone Power were among the passengers who were lost.|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |[62] [63] [64] |-|George Grimston Cookman|style="text-align:center;"|40|-|Tyrone Power|style="text-align:center;"|43|-| data-sort-value="1845-07-01" | July 1845| Franklin's lost expedition| style="text-align:center;" | 59 (Franklin)| Victoria Strait| The expedition led by Sir John Franklin, with 129 seamen, made last contact with a whaling ship before entering Victoria Strait in search of the Northwest Passage. 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;" |[65] |-| data-sort-value="1849-10-07" | 7 October 1849| Francisque Arban| style="text-align:center;" | 34| Mediterranean Sea| Arban was a French balloonist renowned as the first person to cross the Alps in a balloon. On 7 October 1849, he took on a flight from Barcelona but was blown over to the Mediterranean Sea, where he disappeared and is thought to have died.| style="text-align:center;" |[66] |-| data-sort-value="1852-05-17" | 17 May 1852| Sir Montagu Chapman, 3rd Baronet| style="text-align:center;" | 51| Tasman Sea| The Anglo-Irish landowner and High Sheriff of Westmeath in 1844 disappeared while sailing from Melbourne to Sydney, Australia.| style="text-align:center;" |[67] |-| data-sort-value="1854-09" | 28 or 29 September 1854| James Thompson Gerry| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Caribbean Sea| 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, Lieutenant John Quincy Adams, grandson of the second president and nephew of the sixth, and Midshipman Bennet Israel Riley, son of Brevet General Bennet C. Riley, the former military governor of California during its statehood controversy.| style="text-align:center;" |[68] [69] |-|rowspan="2" |23 January 1856|Asa Eldridge|style="text-align:center;"| 47|rowspan="2" |Atlantic Ocean|rowspan="2" | Eldridge was the commander of the SS Pacific when it disappeared under mysterious circumstances while sailing to New York from Liverpool. 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;"|[70] [71] |-|Bernard O'Reilly|style="text-align:center;"| 52|-| data-sort-value="1867-03-01" | March 1867| Trevarton Charles Sholl| style="text-align:center;" | 22| Australia| Sholl, a government official and explorer, was lost at sea when the schooner Emma disappeared during a storm.| style="text-align:center;" |[72] |-| rowspan="3" data-sort-value="1872-12-04" | 4 December 1872| Captain Benjamin Briggs and crew| style="text-align:center;" | 37| rowspan="3"|Atlantic Ocean near Azores| rowspan="3"| Briggs, his wife Sarah, their daughter Sophia, and all seven crew members were missing when the Mary Celeste was found adrift in choppy seas some east of the Azores. Their unexplained disappearances are at the core of "one of the most durable mysteries in nautical history".| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |[73] |-| Sarah Elizabeth Briggs| style="text-align:center;" | 31|-| Sophia Matilda Briggs| style="text-align:center;" | 2|-|-|-| data-sort-value="1880-01-01" | 14 February 1880| Crew of HMS Juno| style="text-align:center;" | Various| Atlantic Ocean| HMS Juno disappeared while sailing from Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda en route to Falmouth, England on 31 January 1880. The vessel is presumed to have sunk in a storm sometime between 12 and 16 February.| style="text-align:center;" |[74] |-| data-sort-value="1880-10-10" | 10 October 1880| Lamont Young| 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, 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;" |[75] |-| data-sort-value="1881-03-25" | 25 March 1881| John Bristow Hughes| style="text-align:center;" | 64| Hobson's Bay, Australia| Hughes, an English-Australian grazier and politician of the South Australian colony, is thought to have drowned on vacation while swimming, but his body was never recovered.| style="text-align:center;" |[76] |-| data-sort-value="1881-09-12" | 12 September 1881| Charles W. Chipp| style="text-align:center;" | 33| Laptev Sea| Chipp, an American naval officer and explorer, took part in the Jeannette expedition, which aimed to discover a route from the Pacific Ocean 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;" |[77] |-| data-sort-value="1881-12-10" | 10 December 1881| Walter Powell| style="text-align:center;" | 39| English Channel| Walter Powell, a Welsh politician member of the Conservative party member in the House of Commons in between 1868 and 1881 as well as a colliery owner, disappeared in a balloon over the English Channel on 10 December 1881 and was never seen again.| style="text-align:center;" |[78] |-| data-sort-value="1884-08-29" | 29 August 1884| Resolven| style="text-align:center;" | Various| Labrador, Canada| The merchant ship Resolven was found abandoned off the coast of Labrador 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;" |[79] |-| data-sort-value="1886-07-22" | 22 July 1886| James Henry Van Alen| style="text-align:center;" | 66| Atlantic Ocean| A Union Army brigadier general, Van Alen either fell or jumped into the sea while on board the RMS Umbria, while returning home from a trip to England.| style="text-align:center;" |[80] |-| data-sort-value="1889-09-29" | 29 September 1889| William Jackson| style="text-align:center;" | 56| Tasman Sea| 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;" |[81] |-| 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;" |[82] |-|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;"|[83] |-|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;"|[84] |-|data-sort-value="1903-11-16"|On or After 16 November 1903|Thomas Williams|style="text-align:center;" | Unknown|Indian Ocean|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 and 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;"|[85] [86] [87] [88] [89] |-|data-sort-value="1909-07-26"|27 July 1909|Waratah|style="text-align:center;" | Various|Mbhashe River, Colony of Natal|The SS Waratah, a 500-foot 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;"|[90] [91] |-| 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 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 sloop Spray he had used for his circumnavigation.| style="text-align:center;" |[92] |-| data-sort-value="1910-12-22" | 22 December 1910| Cecil Grace| style="text-align:center;" | 30| English Channel| Pioneer aviator Grace disappeared over the English Channel on 22 December 1910 while returning to Eastchurch via Dover from Calais after having gone there to attempt to win the 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;" |[93] |-| data-sort-value="1911-06-05" | 5 June 1911| Édouard Bague| style="text-align:center;" | 32| Mediterranean Sea| Bague, a former lieutenant in the 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;" |[94] |-| data-sort-value="1912-04-18" | 18 April 1912| Damer Leslie Allen| style="text-align:center;" | 34| Irish Sea| Allen, an Irish-born British aviator, disappeared on 18 April 1912 while attempting to fly solo from Holyhead, Wales, to Ireland in a Blériot monoplane.| style="text-align:center;" |[95] |-|rowspan="2" data-sort-value="1912-01-01" | 1913|Vladimir Rusanov|style="text-align:center;"| 38|rowspan="2" |Kara Sea|rowspan="2"|Rusanov, a Russian geologist and Arctic explorer, led 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. Artifacts found decades later show that they managed to cross that sea.| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[96] |-|Alexander Kuchin|style="text-align:center;"| 24|-| data-sort-value="1913-10-13" | 13 October 1913| Albert Jewell| style="text-align:center;" | 27| North Atlantic Ocean| Jewell, an early U.S. 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;" |[97] |-| data-sort-value="1914-05-23" | 23 May 1914| Gustav Hamel| style="text-align:center;" | 24–25| English Channel| 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;" |[98] |-| 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;" |[99] |-| 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;" |[100] |-| data-sort-value="1916-09" | c. September 1916| Karl Schwartzkopf| style="text-align:center;" | Unknown| Atlantic Ocean| 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 Bremen1970–present
Solved casesBelow is a list of people who were found, dead or alive, or their fate became known, after disappearing mysteriously at sea. 15th century – 1969
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2010–present
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