The Most Mysterious Missing Ships

Since humans first took to the sea, countless

ships

have been lost due to storms, mutinies, piracy, and even some accidental bombings. According to UNESCO, more than three million

ships

have sunk, many of which were lost thousands of years ago. years, litter the seabed around the world, there is always something macabrely fascinating. about a

mysterious

disappearance that our vast unfathomable oceans seem to provide endless opportunities for ships to disappear without a trace, while many of the best-known shipwrecks, such as that of the Titanic, were well documented, analyzed and understood. There are certain notable exceptions in today's video. to discuss seven shipwrecks that remain shrouded in mystery to this day the griffin was a sailing ship built in 1679 by fur trader and explorer renee robert cavelier despite many famous searches conducted over the years by experienced divers and shipwreck hunters the disappearance of le griffin and his final fate still remains a mystery in august 1679, the ship set out on its maiden voyage with a crew of 34 men with the intention of mapping the great lakes.

The idea was to find the legendary Northwest Passage, a hypothetical east-west navigation route that could potentially decrease the amount of time needed to travel to Asia at the time the griffin was navigating uncharted waters that only canoes had previously explored. It is believed to have been the first boat to traverse many of the Great Lakes. The Griffin was something of a pioneer among the lakes in that the boat had to be pulled manually by ropes through the narrow channel of the Sinclair River for over 40 miles during this time. , the crew faced brutal storms as they embarked on a thousand-mile journey across three of the Five Great Lakes, eventually the ship landing on an island in Lake Michigan.

Located at the mouth of the body of water now known as Green Bay on the island, the local Native American inhabitants had gathered to trade with the French visitors. According to surviving records, the captain and many crew members disembarked from the ship on the 18th. September and the ship was sent back to Niagara with a skeleton crew of only six people; They apparently intended to explore the head of Lake Michigan and some of the crew sailed back to Niagara to sell furs and purchase essential supplies for the return voyage during this return trip from The Island Griffon disappeared without leaving trail with its load of animal skins and its six crew members.

Many theories have been proposed over the years about what may have happened to the ship during the last leg of its journey, although there is no clear consensus. Many among experts speculate that the ship could have been lost in a storm attacked by hostile tribes or even abandoned by the crew who simply decided to flee with the cargo launched in May 1836. The poor balance was an 88-foot, 224-ton dolphin. Brigantine class chartered by Congress for coastal reconnaissance operations before joining the US Exploring Expedition in 1838. The porpoise hunted pirates along the southern coast and participated in anti-piracy patrols.

With the expedition he circumnavigated the world and charted vast areas of the South Pacific between 1838 and 1842. Upon his return four years later, the ship was refitted and sent to the west coast of Africa to patrol for slavers and participate in cruises. against slavery between 1845 and 47. The porpoise crossed the Gulf of Mexico participating in several naval operations during the war with Mexico. The repeated brig joined the North Pacific Exploration and Surveying Expedition in 1853 and charted the islands and coasts of Southeast Asia in September 1854. The Porpoise detached itself from the other ships between Formosa and China to explore the Bonins and the Marianas. after abandoning the North Pacific expedition.

She was never heard from again about the ship. Speculation abounds about what might have happened to the poor boys after their separation from the squad. Most historians and naval experts believe that the ship was lost while transiting the Daiwan Strait amid a strong typhoon. ​​The porpoise was last sighted by a ship on September 21, 1854 before disappearing without a trace. Originally called the Elf Wrath Man, this ship was built in Sweden in 1914. It was later purchased by a German shipping company. which used it mainly as a transport ship to trade goods between different European countries after the First World War, however, the Hudson Bay company obtained ownership of the ship as part of German reparations, now named SS Baychimo.

The ship was used by the company to deliver food, fuel and supplies to trading posts along the coast of Victoria Island in On August 26, 1931 the ship stopped at Herschel Island to deliver some goods on its way. to Vancouver. The weather began to show signs of winter conditions despite it being the end of summer, believing that the cold and inhospitable weather was only temporary. Captain Sidney Cornwell insisted that they continue their voyage and sail for Vancouver the next day. Unfortunately, this turned out to be a mistake. Winter came earlier than usual and an unprecedented storm struck on October 1, trapping the SS Bay Chimo in an ice-covered ocean near Point.

Barrow, a promontory on the northern coast of Alaska, the crew called for help, but strong winds carrying snow and icy waters made it impossible to reach the stranded ship. On October 10, the Hudson's Bay Company sent a rescue plane and transported the crew members to safety, Captain Cornwell. With some of his crew they built a temporary wooden shelter near the ship to monitor it until she was finally free of the ice. A severe blizzard hit the area on November 24, 1931, forcing the crew to retreat to the town of Barrow in Alaska when they returned to find the ship

missing

.

It was initially assumed that the Bay Chimo had sunk during the blizzard, however a week later a hunter reported that the ship was floating near Skull Cliff about 50 miles from where it had originally become trapped when Captain Cornwell and His crew eventually found that the ship was severely damaged, giving the impression that it would soon break up and sink, so the crew decided to salvage the valuable cargo of furs and leave the ship behind. This should have been the last time anyone heard of the ss bay chimo. But it wasn't over the years that local residents and other ships sailing in the area reported seeing the unmanned ship gliding silently through the Arctic waters from coast to coast completely intact;

She was last reported in 1969 floating between a tumulus and a frozen cape. As late as 2006, the state of Alaska deployed a formal search team to locate the elusive Arctic wanderer, even with all its advanced equipment; However, the team was unable to find it and what exactly happened to the bay chimo may forever remain a mystery. The Antikythera shipwreck, dating from the second half of the 1st century BC. C., was first discovered in 1900 by sponge divers near the Greek island of Antikythera. Over the years, marine archaeologists have recovered several surviving artifacts from the shipwreck site, including some bronze statues and marble jewelry. silver coins and amphora or ceramic vessel, several pieces of glass and a bronze piece.

Numerous works of art were also recovered, including a two-metre-high statue of Heracles. Many scholars believe that this Roman-era shipwreck submerged at the junction of the Mediterranean and Aegean seas was originally a Greek trading or cargo ship that sank while transporting some of the treasures looted from Athens in 86 BC. By the Roman general Sula Lucian of Samasata had made reference in some of his writings to one of Sula's ships that sank in the region of Antikythera, which could give some credibility to this theory, the utensils and household accessories recovered from the shipwreck , such as Roman ceramics and amphorae, also appeared to support this theory.

During the first excavation of the Antikythera shipwreck, a modest piece of bronze was discovered that later turned out to be an ancient mechanical artifact. Computer used to plan important religious rituals, agricultural activities, and sporting events. The so-called Antikythera mechanism comprised a complex set of interlocking gears used to predict the movements of celestial bodies, including the Sun, Moon and various planets. From the inscriptions and configuration of the gears, scientists deduced that the mechanism It could also predict the timing of lunar and solar eclipses years in advance. The reason for the loss of the Greek ship al

most

2,000 years ago is still unclear, but artifacts recovered from the shipwreck have made it one of the

most

important discoveries of the century.

The world of marine archeology has changed many assumptions in the scientific community about the limits of ancient technology. The Antikythera mechanism, for example, predates any other object approaching the same level of sophistication by at least a thousand years. The merchant paper was a 17th century English merchant ship. which traded with the Spanish colonies in the West Indies between 1637 and 1640. At the time when Spain and England were at peace with each other, the mercantile role under the command of Captain John Limbre had the task of transporting treasures from the New World to Spain. The treasures were to be used to pay the salaries of the 30,000 Spanish soldiers stationed in Flanders, Belgium.

In September 1641, the ship was loaded with 400 ingots of Mexican silver, 500,000 silver coins, an enormous amount of precious jewels and one hundred thousand pounds of gold. The ship apparently had a large leak after its long voyage from the West Indies to Europe. When it entered English waters, the weather conditions worsened. The pumps on board broke down and the ship began to take on water. 18 men drowned when the merchant ship sank. It sank somewhere off the coast of Land's End. Captain Limbre of Land's End soon fired the ship's cannon calling for help from nearby ships. He and 40 of his crew were rescued by the Dover merchant.

Another merchant ship sailing nearby, however, was unable to salvage any of the cargo, resulting in a loss of over £1.1 billion in today's money countless people over the years attempted to find the remains. from the shipwreck and recover its valuable cargo, in 2007 an American company called Odyssey Marine Explorer, dedicated to the exploration of the deep oceans for the extraction of underwater mineral resources, rescued five hundred thousand pieces of gold and silver coins from a shipwreck that was originally Rumored to be the actual merchant, however, the remains discovered by this company were later identified as the Nestra Sonora de las Mercedes, a Spanish ship lost in 1804.

Hence the incredible long-lost treasures. of merchant paper still waiting to be discovered the uss cyclops was a proteus class mining ship launched in 1910 and commissioned by the united states navy during world war i in march 1918 the ship disappeared without a trace near sinkits island along With all 306 passengers and crew members and officers on board at the time of its disappearance the ship was en route back to the United States from Brazil after having completed a mission under the command of Lieutenant Commander George W Walley to assist While refueling British ships the ship was last sighted in the vicinity of Barbados on March 4, 1918.

Interestingly, the Cyclops disappeared without a trace in an area commonly known as the Bermuda Triangle and was not the first ship to

mysterious

ly disappear in this area; There was no distress call from the ship before she disappeared. Or were remains of the wreck or some other evidence of a shipwreck nearly 550 feet long found? The Cyclops was carrying almost 11,000 tons of manganese oars along with her 306 passengers when she disappeared. The last known message from the Cyclops simply said if she is okay. However, something went wrong during the long voyage back to Baltimore and no one from the ship was seen or heard from again.

The USS Cyclops, a key naval asset used to transport coal to fuel other ships around the world, simply disappeared from the map without as much information. As you are, the mysterious circumstances surrounding the loss of the Cyclops have given rise to an avalanche of sensational theories about what really may have happened to him. She is one of the most famous among the 100 planes and ships that have mysteriously disappeared in the so-called Bermuda Triangle, a region in the western part of the North Atlantic surrounded by Puerto Rico, San Juan, Miami andBermuda Some suggest that the ship was the victim of an attack by a German submarine while others point to the fact that a few months before the attack on the ship After its disappearance, some members of the crew had organized a minor mutiny alleging that the commander Wurley was an alcoholic and incapable of directing the Cyclops.

However, most naval experts are of the opinion that the ship sank due to structural failure, as the Proteus-class coal ships were designed to carry coal. and not manganese ore, which is denser and heavier than coal and therefore may have caused the ship's structural beams to weaken over time. The disappearance of the HL Hunley, a Confederate submarine that played a minor role in the American Civil War, is one of the biggest. Mysteries in the Maritime World When she sank a live torpedo into the hull of the USS Husatonic on February 17, 1864, the Hunley became the first submarine in history to successfully sink an enemy warship;

However, before the submarine could return to base after this successful attack, it was lost at sea along with its human crew. For more than a century after its disappearance, divers and shipwreck hunters searched for the remains of the Hunley. in the waters of Charleston. She was finally found in 1995 and pulled from the ocean floor in 2000, but this recovery. Ultimately, it raised more questions than it answered. An archaeological examination of the wreck revealed that all eight crew members remained at their posts even as the submarines sank, there were no signs of panic or any last-minute desperate attempts to flee the sinking ship, apart from The remains of the crew members showed no signs of major physical injuries, suggesting that what happened to the Hunley was not violent enough to break the bones of those inside since the submarine's recovery.

Investigators have found a hidden fail-safe mechanism in the ship's keel that should have allowed the crew to escape the hunley when it began. However, the mechanism was never activated, which seems to suggest that the crew did not perceive any danger in the minutes. prior to the sinking of the submarine. All emergency levers were also locked in position, which appears to provide further evidence that there was no panic on board. When the submarine sank, if it had been compromised, one thousand pounds of keel blocks would have been released and the submarine would have been raised to the surface of the water, thus allowing the crew members to swim to safety.

Since time immemorial humans have been fascinated by the idea of ​​shipwrecks and it is not difficult to understand why first there is the appeal of sunken treasure, an attractive idea for any culture that appreciates shiny things so well, then there is the mystique and tragedy. inherent in seeing a once-mighty ship languishing at the bottom of the ocean covered in algae and home to fish and crabs When a ship sinks or disappears with no survivors to tell the story, speculation runs rampant with facts becoming stories and then legends, soon one day plausible explanations may be found for these maritime mysteries, but until then you will have to rely on stories, legends and conjecture to try to understand what happened after these ships last set sail, so I really hope you found the video interesting.

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