Missing Ships / Ship Disappearances (General; Misc.)

[YogiAgain]

This is my first post so sorry for any mistakes.

a friend recently told me that he had heard on a tv show (he thinks horizon or similar) that every year 100's of ships go missing and not just small yachts but big tankers and no one knows what happens to them.

i've heard all about giant waves so i suppose they could be responsible for some missing ships but not all surely?

also does no one look for these ships or do they keep it quiet because of bad publicity?

has anyone else heard this can it possibly be true or did he totally Imagine it?? :?:

 

[andy_just_andy]

In certain parts of the world pirates are a big problem.

 

[rynner2]

Pirates, bad weather, bad navigation, freak waves, insurance hoaxes, etc.
Plenty of non-mysterious reasons for ships to go missing.

Lloyd's List and other shipping magazines regularly report on such disappearances and the likely reasons.

http://www.lloydslist.com/NASApp/cs/Con ... sList/Home

 

[ArthurASCII]

I suspect that the main reasons that the occasional disappearance of a large vessel doesn't make the headlines are:

a. They are often registered in far off places like Liberia

b. They are largely crewed by Philippinos, so the world at large doesn't give a damn about any loss of life

 

[Stormkhan]

The old 'scam' of registering a rusting, dangerous ship with 'liberty' ports who might be flexible when it comes to honest examination for insurance purposes has been going on for ages. Note that it is suggested that the Mary Celeste finally came to an end in such a 'scam'.
However, the now recognised existance of Superwaves that'll even take an oil tanker down in minutes will explain many of the annual losses.

 

[OldTimeRadio]

... Another vessel which has long fascinated me, although it was certainly not a ghost ship in any sense, was the WARATAH. But its loss off South Africa had an undeniably paranormal element to it.

We now have a separate thread on the Waratah.

The Waratah: Luxury Ship Of Doom
http://forum.forteantimes.com/index.php?threads/the-waratah-luxury-ship-of-doom.14831/

 

[EnolaGaia]

This thread is being resurrected and remodeled to serve as the primary compendium related to ships and vessels which have disappeared (gone missing; wound up MIA).

CASES WITH THEIR OWN DEDICATED THREADS:

The Waratah: Luxury Ship Of Doom
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-waratah-luxury-ship-of-doom.14831/

The USS Cyclops & Her Sister Ships
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-uss-cyclops-her-sister-ships.48700/

 

[Sillyhuron]

This sounds like the place to mention SS Baychimo, "ghost ship of the arctic", which was abandoned in 1931 during a blizzard, but stayed afloat for 30+ years of intermittent sightings. Presumed sunk, but who knows?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Baychimo