The Carroll A. Deering. A five-masted commercial schooner that was found run aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in 1921, the Carroll A. Deering has inspired reams of pages of writing. One of the most famous maritime mysteries in history, its crew was never found, leading to claims that it had fallen victim to the Bermuda Triangle. Later evidence would suggest a mutiny or piracy.
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The MV Joyita was found adrift in the South Pacific without its crew onboard in 1955. The merchant vessel's 25 passengers and crew weren't found. Despite the vessel's dilapidated conditions, its extreme buoyancy made sinking nearly impossible.
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The SS Valencia was an iron-hulled passenger steamer wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island in 1906. Built in 1882 by William Cramp and Sons, the vessel weighed 1,598 tons and measured 77 m in length. The wreck is counted among the worst maritime disasters of the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, an area dubbed “the Graveyard of the Pacific” for its unforgiving conditions.
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