Though usually smaller, planes are much more closely in touch with land bases, as well as in communication with each other, with ships, and in the cause of military craft, with submarines. Then it began being noticed that one of the six categories of lost ships – those that “disappeared” – constituted an unusual class. Ships have been foundering and “disappearing” at sea since time immemorial, an accepted fact until comparatively recent times when ship-to-shore contact by radio was established. Does the name “Bermuda Triangle” sound familiar? If not, then you should know that this area in the Atlantic is notorious for the disappearance of many ships and planes under very mysterious circumstances. Take a look at a map and see if that rings a bell.
Their disappearances occurred somewhere near the Bermuda. Next in size was the Ithaca Island, a 7246 ton vessel with a load of grain our of Norfolk, VA. with a cargo of vegetable oils and caustic soda, bound for Cape Town, South Africa. The largest of the last lot was a 10,000-toner named the Milton Iatridis out of New Orleans, LA. “Missing” means disappearing, without trace (wreckage, bodies, etc._ and without any distress calls or signals being picked up.įrom the first of January 1961 to the end of 1970, Lloyd’s listed 2766 shipping losses 1136 by wrecking 771 by foundering, and 70 under disappearing. Today, shipping insurance is a worldwide enterprise, and ship losses, are analyzed and regularly reported under six heading: 1)founded, swamped, or burst asunder due to the sea alone 2) burned 3) collided 4) wrecked, on rocks, shores or underwater hazards 5) missing and, 6) other causes.
Llyod’s of London has kept tabs on world shipping since the formal initiation of insurance as a business a few hundred years ago. Originally Published in SAGA UFO Report Special 1973
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