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LIST OF BERMUDA TRIANGLE INCIDENTS

Aircraft Incidents

1940-1949

• TBF Avenger, 1942
• PBY Catalina, 1942
• TBF Avenger, 1943
• 4 US Navy Lockheed PV-1 Ventura's, 1943
• PB4Y Privateer, 1943
• PBY Catalina, 1944
• PB4Y Privateer, 1944
• SBD-5 Dauntless, 1944
• PBY-5A Catalina, 1944
• PB4Y Privateer, 1945
• B-24 Liberator, 1945
• US Navy Flight 19 (5 TBF Avengers), lost with 14 crewmen on December 5, 1945.
• US Navy PBM-5 Mariner, lost with 13 crewmen on December 5, 1945.
• US Army C-54 lost 100 miles off Bermuda, July 3, 1947.
• British South American Airways Avro Tudor IV Star Tiger, lost with 4 crewmen and 25 passengers on January 31, 1948 (aircraft lost near Bermuda.)
• Douglas DC-3 NC16002 lost with 3 crewmen and 29 passengers on December 27, 1948.
• British South American Airways Avro Tudor IV Star Ariel, lost with 7 crewmen and 13 passengers on January 17, 1949.

1950-1959

• F6F-5 Hellcat, lost in 1950.
• F9F-2 Panther, lost in 1950.
• US Air Force Globemaster lost (Refute: No C-74 or C-124 aircraft are reported lost in 1950 by the USAF.)
• British South American Airways Avro York transport, lost with 33 passengers and crew on February 2, 1952.
• C-46 Commando, lost in 1952.
• US Navy T2V SeaStar, lost in 1953.
• US Navy R7V-1 Super Constellation, lost with 2 pilots and 42 passengers on October 30, 1954
• US Navy P5M Marlin seaplane, lost with 10 crewmen on November 9, 1956.
• Beechcraft Bonanza N4952b, lost with 2 pilots on February 8, 1959. Thought to be near 31.25n 79.45w

1960-1969

• US Air Force F-100 Super Sabre, lost with pilot on March 18, 1960.
• US Air Force SAC B-52 bomber Pogo 22 lost with 4 crewmen on October 14, 1961.
• US Air Force KB-50 Aerial Tanker Tyler 41, lost with 8 crewmen on January 8, 1962.
• US Air Force C-133 Cargomaster, lost on May 27, 1962 .
• 2 US Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers, lost on August 28, 1963
• US Air Force C-133 Cargomaster, lost on September 22, 1963
• US Air Force C-119 Flying Boxcar, lost with 5 crewmen on June 5, 1965.
• Privately owned B-25 Mitchell, lost with pilot and 2 passengers on April 5, 1966.
• Military Chase YC-122, converted to civilian cargo plane, lost in 1967.
• Cessna 172, lost with pilot on June 6, 1969

1970-1979

• US Air Force F-4 Phantom II Sting 27, lost with 2 pilots on October 10, 1971 (F-4E of 307 TFS lost on a training mission.
• Ryan Navion, lost with 2 pilots on May 25, 1973.
• Piper Cherokee, lost with pilot and 5 passengers on July 13, 1974.
• US Navy KA-6D Fighting Tiger 524, lost with 2 pilots on February 22, 1978
• Argosy Airlines Douglas DC-3 Flight 902, registration number N407D, lost with 4 crewmen on September 21, 1978; vanished off radar scope.
• Caribbean Flight 912, lost on November 3, 1978 (The NTSB records this loss as happening on approach to the airport in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands)

1980-1989

• Beechcraft Baron N9027Q, lost with pilot on February 11, 1980

• ERCO Ercoupe N3808H, lost with pilot on June 28, 1980
• Beechcraft Bonanza, lost on January 6, 1981.
• Piper Cherokee N3527E, lost on March 26, 1986.

[edit] Prior to 1850

• 1779, Disappearance of Thomas Lynch, Jr. and wife while sailing to West Indies.
• 1780, General Gates; no British warship claimed her sinking, but she had been declared unseaworthy in 1779 and sold.
• August 8, 1800, USS Insurgent went missing during cruise to West Indies in search of enemy ships during Quasi-War with France. Insurgent was former French frigate L'Insurgente, captured the year before by USS Constellation.
• August 20, 1800, USS Pickering went missing on voyage to West Indies. Both Pickering and Insurgent may have been lost in a severe storm that hit West Indies on September 20, 1800.
• December 30, 1812 Patriot, American privateer. Carried as a passenger Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr.
• October 1814, USS Wasp, sloop-of-war that severely harassed British shipping in the War of 1812; went missing on Caribbean cruise, October 1814.
• January/February 1815, USS Epervier, while carrying original peace proposals for War of 1812; left Algiers for Norfolk, and went missing with crew of 134 in 1815, delaying the ending of hostilities (rare instance of maritime disappearance directly connected to international politics). DANFS however says the ship went missing sometime after July 14, 1815, carrying copies of a treaty with the Dey of Algiers back to the US and may have been lost in a known August 1815 hurricane.
• January 1820, USS Lynx went missing with crew of 50 in far western Atlantic.
• October 1824, USS Wildcat went missing with crew of 31 after leaving Cuba (Navy records indicate she was a storm victim).
• 1840, Rosalie; went missing in Sargasso Sea.
• March 15, 1843, USS Grampus went missing sailing south of the Carolinas.

1850-1899

• December 4, 1872. Mary Celeste, brigantine commanded by Captain Benjamin Briggs, 7 crew plus Briggs' wife and daughter; found abandoned at sea west of the Azores.
• January 31, 1880. HMS Atalanta, 26-gun frigate; went missing with crew of 281 after departing Bermuda for Falmouth, England.

1900-1909

• November 14, 1909. Spray, ketch, piloted by renowned world-circumnavigator Joshua Slocum, went missing after departing Miami, Florid

1910-1919

• Mar 6-27, 1917. SS Timandra, 1,579-ton steam freighter, Captain Lee commanding; went missing with crew of 21 while bound for Buenos Aires from Norfolk for cargo of coal.
• Mar 6-10, 1918. USS Cyclops, collier, LT. CDR. George Worley; went missing with 309 crew and passengers after leaving Barbados for Baltimore, Maryland.

1920-1929

• November or December or September or Spaghetti, 1920, SS Hewitt, steam freighter. Disappeared.
• January 31, 1921, Carroll A. Deering, five-masted schooner, Captain W.B. Wormell, crew of 11. Found aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
• December 1925, SS Cotopaxi, tramp steamer, Captain Meyers; went missing with crew of 32 after leaving Charleston, South Carolina for Havana, Cuba; reported caught in tropical storm.
• March 14, 1926, SS Suduffco, freighter, Captain Thomas J. Turner; went missing with crew of 29 while sailing from New York City to Los Angeles.
  

1930-1939

• March 1938, Anglo Australian, freighter, Captain Parslow; went missing with crew of 38 off Azores on voyage from Cardiff, Wales for British Columbia.

1940-1949

• February 18, 1942, FS Surcouf, submarine operated by Free French Navy lost in Caribbean, apparently rammed by freighter Thompson Lykes near Panama Canal; both vessels travelling unlit due to threat of U-boats.
• March 6, 1948, Evelyn K.
• 1948, SS Samkey (year also given as 1943) last position 41^o48' N 24^o W (NE of Azores).

1950-1959

• 1950, SS Sandra, freighter, lost after passing St. Augustine, Florida for Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
• January 13, 1955, Home Sweet Home, pleasure craft.
• September 26, 1955, Connemara IV, found abandoned.
• January 1, 1958, Revonoc, pleasure craft, captained by business tycoon Harvey Conover.

1960-1969

• February 3, 1963, SS Marine Sulphur Queen T-2 tanker, vanishes with crew of 39 off the Florida Keys; carrying molten sulphur. [2]
• July 2, 1963, Sno' Boy, pleasure craft, converted ACR (similar to WWII PT boats).
• January 13, 1965, Enchantress, pleasure craft.
• October 28, 1965, El Gato, pleasure craft.
• December 10 1967, Speed Artist, 5 persons; Windward Islands
• December 22, 1967, Witchcraft, cabin cruiser, 2 onboard, disappears one mile off Miami; had called Coast Guard requesting a tow, but on their arrival 19 minutes later no trace found; possibly pushed north by Gulf Stream; search involved 1,200 square miles

1970-1979

• 1970: French freighter Milton Latrides disappears; sailing from New Orleans to Cape Town; carrying vegetable oils and caustic soda
• El Caribe; lost on September 10, 1971
• 1973: German freighter Anita (20,000 tons), lost with crew of 32; sister ship Norse Variant (both carrying coal) lost at same time; year sometimes given as 1973; survivor from latter found on raft described loss of ship in stormy weather - waves broke hatch cover and ship sank quickly.
• Dawn; lost on April 22, 1975
• 1976: SS Sylvia L. Ossa lost in heavy seas 140 miles west of Bermuda.
• 1978: SS Hawarden Bridge had previously been found with marijuana residue by USCG Cape Knox February '78 [4], found abandoned in West Indies a month later[5]; crime might be involved. scuttled November '78.

1980-1989

• 1980: SS Poet; carrying grain to Egypt; no survivors.

1990-1999

• 1995: Inter-island freighter Jamanic K (built 1943) reported lost after leaving Cap Haitien.
• 1999: Freighter Genesis Lost after sailing from Port of Spain to St Vincent; cargo included 465 tons of water tanks, concrete slabs and bricks; reported problems with bilge pump before loss of contact. Search of 33,000 square miles of sea is fruitless.