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This is a list of incidents attributed in popular culture to the Bermuda Triangle.

Aircraft incidents

• 1945: December 5, Fl444444 (5 TBF Avengers) lost with 14 airmen, and later the same day PBM Mariner BuNo 59225 lost with 13 airmen while searching for Flight 19.^[1]
• 1948: January 30, Avro Tudor G-AHNP Star Tiger lost with 6 crew and 25 passengers, en route from Santa Maria Airport in the Azores to Kindley Field, Bermuda.^[2]
• 1948: December 28, Douglas DC-3 NC16002 lost with 3 crew and 29 passengers, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami.^[3]
• 1949: January 17, Avro Tudor G-AGRE Star Ariel lost with 7 crew and 13 passengers, en route from Kindley Field, Bermuda, to Kingston Airport, Jamaica.^[4]

Incidents at sea

• 1843: USS Grampus, schooner, last seen March 15, presumed sunk in a gale off Charleston, South Carolina.^[5]
• 1918: USS Cyclops, collier, left Barbados on March 4, lost with 309 crew and passengers en route to Baltimore, Maryland.^[6]
• 1921: January 31, Carroll A. Deering, five-masted schooner, Captain W.B. Wormell, 11 crew, found aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
• 1925: December, SS Cotopaxi, tramp steamer, Captain Meyers, went missing with crew of 32 after leaving Charleston, South Carolina for Havana, Cuba, reported caught in tropical storm.
• 1967: December 22, Witchcraft, cabin cruiser, 2 onboard, disappears one mile (1.6 km) off Miami; had called Coast Guard requesting a tow, but on their arrival 19 minutes later no trace found; possibly pushed north by Gulf Stream; search involved 1,200 square miles (3,100 km²). ^[7]

Numerous incidents erroneously associated with the Bermuda Triangle actually occurred elsewhere. These include:

• 1872: December 5, Mary Celeste, a 282-ton brigantine, sailed from Staten Island, New York City, bound for Genoa, Italy, on 7 November, and was found abandoned some 400 miles (640 km) east of the Azores; her last log entry on November 24 gave her position as 100 miles (160 km) west of the Azores.^[8]
• 1925: April 21, Raifuku Maru, a Japanese cargo ship which sank with the loss of all 38 crew, supposedly went down in the Triangle after sending out an SOS signal which allegedly read "Danger like dagger now. Come quick!", but in reality the ship was seen to sink in a gale off Nova Scotia and the SOS message did not contain the word "dagger".^[9]
• 1942: February 18, FS Surcouf, a Free French Naval Forces submarine en route for Tahiti via the Panama Canal, sank about 80 miles (130 km) north of Cristóbal, Colón, after a night-time collision with the American cargo ship Thompson Lykes.
• 1963: February 3, SS Marine Sulphur Queen T-2 tanker carrying molten sulphur, lost with 39 crew near Dry Tortugas in the Straits of Florida, west of Miami.^[10]

Incidents on land

• 1969: Great Isaac Lighthouse (Bimini, Bahamas) - its two keepers disappeared and were never found.^[11]

References

External links

• The Bermuda Triangle: A Selective Bibliography
• United States Coast Guard casualty reports