AN ABANDONED oil tanker has sparked a major mystery after it washed up on a beach with no sign of any of its crew. The Tamaya 1, a 64-metre long oil tanker registered in Panama, disappeared off the face of…
The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination! Located…
Experts have discovered a World War II US aircraft carrier that is “amazingly intact” despite languishing on the bottom of the Pacific for more than 60 years. The ship is upright, listing only slightly and may even have an plane…
It is an interesting thing to think about – four generations of one family, the Gibson family, were there to photograph several ships right at the moment of their destruction. The eerie, fuzzy black and white photos of the ships…
Lake Superior is so big that it behaves like an inland sea, including nasty storms. In November 1975, a massive storm battered the lake just as the gigantic ore carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald departed for Detroit. By the next morning,…
In February 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion departed from Norfolk, Virginia, and headed toward the Mediterranean. It had almost a decade of reliable service behind it, and there were no qualms about the journey as the sub set out to…
The strange mystery of the missing people Sometimes people vanish! The mystery of the MV Joyita is one of those times. MV Joyita was a merchant vessel from which 25 passengers and crew mysteriously disappeared in the South Pacific in…
The København The Kobenhavn was built for the Danish East Asiatic Company in 1921, When it was launched it was the world’s largest sailing ship. It’s sails stood over 5 stories high. From 1921 to 1928 the ship made nine…
Lost at sea The Marlborough was an iron-built two-decked merchant sailing ship which disappeared in 1890. She was built by the firm of Robert Duncan and Co., Port Glasgow and launched in 1876 for her owner John Leslie, who later…
In July 1909, the steamer ship, SS Waratah which was en route from Durban to Cape Town, unexplainable disappeared with 211 passengers and crew aboard. To this day, no trace of the ship has been found, but stories continue of…
The missing Kaz 11 The 32.2 ft catamaran was found floating nearly 88 nautical miles off the northern coast of Australia in 2007. The three man crew have never been found. The boat was discovered with its engine running and…
The missing Nina In May 2013 Nina set off from New Zealand heading towards Sydney. It vanished after sailing into a severe storm in June. A text message sent shortly afterwards suggested that the storm had been weathered. However no…
