Disappearances and Strange Occurrences

1951, October 3-4

SAO PAULO - Brazilian Warship, De-commisioned
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin.
1953, February 2

BRITISH YORK - Transport plane
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche

    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,
1954, October 30
NAVY SUPER CONSTELLATION - From Patuxent River Naval Air Station to the Azores
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin.
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer
1954, December 5                                            top
SOUTHERN DISTRICTS - Converted navy LST
    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
        Refers to the date as December 7th.
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin.
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche
        Reports that the cargo was a load of Sulfur.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer
     United States Coast Guard Report - SOUTHERN DISTRICTS - a-8 Bd
         The SOUTHERN DISTRICTS, propelled by internal combustion engines, of 3338 g.t., a former U. S. Navy LST, built in Leavenworth, Kansas
         in 1944 and converted during 1949 for the carriage of bulk cargo in coastwise merchant service, departed from Port Sulphur, Louisiana, on
         2 December 1954 with a full load of bulk sulphur destined for Bucksport, Maine. At 1530 on 5 December 1954 the SOUTHERN DISTRICTS
         was in radio communication with WOE RCA Station and at approximately the same time was overtaken and passed by the GULF KEYS.
         During the night of 5 December off the Florida and Carolina coasts the wind from a southeasterly direction reached force 7, shifting the next
         day to a northerly, force 8, accompanied by squalls with gusts of force 9 and rough seas. The weather conditions moderated on 7 December.
         The SOUTHERN DISTRICTS was expected to arrive at Bucksport on 7 or 8 December and the master was to report 72 hours in advance of
         the estimated time of arrival. No word was received from nor was the SOUTHERN DISTRICTS sighted and identified at any time subsequent
         to 1600 5 December 1954. The owners, after making due allowance for bad weather, endeavored on 9 December 1954 to communicate with
         the SOUTHERN DISTRICTS by radio. At 2130 11 December, the owners informed the Coast Guard of their failure to reach or receive word
         from the SOUTHERN DISTRICTS, whereupon the Coast Guard instituted a communications, surface and air search which continued until
         20 December with negative results. It is evident that the SOUTHERN DISTRICTS was overcome by casualty sometime after 1600 5 December
         1954 and that her entire crew comprising 23 officers and seamen, perished with the vessel. Ernest M. Rowe, Master - Thomas B. Roane,
         Chief Mate - James B. Downing, 2nd Mate - Dwight L. Hudson, 3rd Mate - George G Folk, Radio Operator - Walter H. Jennette, Chief Engineer -
         Elbano Opffer, 1st Asst. Engineer - Marvin L. Carder, 2nd Asst. Engineer - Cecil L. Parrish Jr., 3rd Asst. Engineer - James B. Sellers, AB -
         Wladyslau Hinc, AB - Satinios Gelardlinos, O.S. - John Daniels, O.S. - Victoriano R. Martinez, 2nd Cook - William T. Cooper, Oiler - James
         H. Brandon, Messman - Louie B. Cook, Oiler - F. J. Farneigho Jr., Messman - Herbert Klotz, AB - Purdon A. Morris, Oiler - Thomas T. Nichols,
         AB - Billy E. Nolan, AB - S. B. Thomas, Chief Cook.
1955, January
HOME SWEET HOME - Schooner
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,
1955, September 26
CONNEMARA IV - Motor yacht found abandoned
    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin.
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,
1956                                                                top
MARINE SKY RAIDER
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche
1956, November 9
NAVY PATROL BOMBER, MARTIN MARLIN, P5M - Twin engine patrol flying boat, 350 miles north of Bermuda.
                                                                                                                   no debris recovered, crew of 10.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,
1957
SANDRA - See also: 1950, June
    "The Bermuda Triangle" - Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey
1958, January 1
REVONOC - A 44' yawl disappears in bad weather from Key West to the Caribean with Harvey Conover on board.

Harvey Conover recieving sailing trophy.On the night of December 31, 1957/January 1, 1958, he, his son Larry, wife Dorothy and friend, Bill Fluegelman, left Key West for Miami. In the Revonoc. They were never seen again.

    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
        Refers to the date as January 7th, 1958.
     "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin
    "The Bermuda Triangle" - Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey, Page 102
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer, Page 144.
1962                                                                 top
PLANE - Unknown small plane over Nassau
    "The Bermuda Triangle" - Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey, Page 146
        A report of a pilot of a small plane over Nassau who can not see the land he is over, but is seen and heard by those on the ground.
1962, January 8
PLANE, KB-50J AIR TANKER - Langley,Virginia to the Azores.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin
    "The Bermuda Triangle" - Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey, Page 78
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer, Page 39.
1962, April
PLANE, PIPER APACHE
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche

1963, February 4
MARINE SULFUR QUEEN - A 523' type T2-SE-A1 tanker with a load of molten sulfur.

    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin, Page 52
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche, Page 305
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer, Page 132.

1963, July 2                                                     top
SNO BOY - 63 foot chartered fishing boat lost with 55 on board, possible wreckage found.
    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin, .
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche,
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,

1963, August 28
KC-135, 2 AIRPLANES - Two airplanes lost, possible mid-air collision.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche,
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,

1963, September 22
C-133 CARGOMASTER AIRPLANE - Lost between Dover, Delaware and the Azores.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin,

1964
CRYSTAL - Reported missing in 1964, found in July of 1968, 4 years after being reported missing.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer, Page 69.
DANCING FEATHER - A 39 foot ketch.
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin,

1964, January 13                                              top
ENCHANTRESS - A 59 foot yacht that disappeared during bad weather and gale warnings approximatley 150 miles S/E of Charleston.
    "The Bermuda Triangle" - Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey.

1965, June 5
C-119 FLYING BOXCAR AIRPLANE - Lost from Homestead Air Base to Grand Turk.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche.
        Reported to have a cargo of airplane parts.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,

1965, October 28
EL GATO - 45 foot catamaran houseboat.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,
1966, October 29
SOUTHERN CITIES - A 67 foot harbor tug lost in the Gulf of Mexico. The SOUTHERN CITIES had problems on three other occasions
                                                 causing the NTSB and Coast Guard to blame her lack of "seaworthiness" for her disappearance.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    National Transportation Safety Board
         This accident was investigated by the U. S. Coast Guard. The Marine Board of Investigation was conducted in a public proceeding in Houston,
         Texas, beginning November 14, 1966. The Coast Guard report of that investigation and the Commandant's action thereon is included in and made
         a part of this report. The NTSB has considered those facts in the Cost Guard report and came to the following conclusion: The NTSB finds that
         the basic cause of the accident with the attendant loss of life was the unseaworthiness of the vessel for it's employment. Vessels of this type,
         designed for service on inland waters, are extremely vulnerable to the perils of the sea when operating on unsheltered waters and distant from
         a harbor of safe refuge.
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin,
     U. S. Coast Guard Report: 5943/SOUTHERN CITIES A-8 Bd, 17 January, 1968
         The M/V SOUTHERN CITIES bound on a voyage to Tuxpan, Mexico was lost at sea in the Gulf of Mexico with six crewmembers on board
         after having departed Freeport, Texas on the evening of 29 October 1966 towing loaded barge B-1800 on a hawser. other vessels in the Gulf
         of Mexico reported winds from the Northwest at 30 to 40 knots with seas 91/2 to 13 feet. The last communication was received from SOUTHERN
         CITIES at approximately 0630 (+6 zone time) on November 1 1966 when, in the morning report to the owner she indicated her position to be
         latitude 24º 30' north, longitude 96º 40' west. The SOUTHERN CITIES failed to make her scheduled daily report on the morning of 2 November
         1966. Although not yet overdue, when no position report was received from the SOUTHERN CITIES on the morning of 3 November 1966, the
         owner reported to the U. S. Coast Guard rescue coordination center New Orleans, Louisiana that there had been no communication from
         the vessel in the previous 48 hours and requested Coast Guard assistance in locating and establishing communication with the SOUTHERN
         CITIES. A search was made along the probable route of the tow by a Coast Guard aircraft with negative results. When no report was received
         from the SOUTHERN CITIES on November 4 1966 an intensive search by CG aircraft and a CG vessel was commenced at the request of the
         vessels owner. The search, covering 84,600 square miles, continued until November 8, 1966. During the search, barge B-1800 was located
         at 0833 on November 5 drifting approximately 105 miles north of Tuxpan, Mexico. The barge was undamaged with her cargo intact and the
         tow line was still made fast. A life preserver, a broken section of the name board, and a ring buoy from SOUTHERN CITIES were later found
         at various positions. No other debris or equipment was located None of the crew of six have ever been found. Grady A. Reynolds, Master -
         Victor L. Benton, Mate - Clyde Wesley Sparkman, Engineer - George R. Johnson, Deckhand - Buddy Lee, Deckhand - Thomas E Rollins,
         Deckhand.

1967, January 11, Also refered to as "Black Week"
    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
CHASE YC-122 AIRPLANE - A cargo plane.
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,
LIGHT AIRPLANE - Piloted by Phillip Quigley.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,
PIPER APACHE AIRPLANE - Piloted by John D. Walston.
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche.

1967, January 12                                              top
PIPER APACHE AIRPLANE
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,

1967, January 14
BEECHCRAFT BONANZA AIRPLANE - Piloted by Robert Van Westerbork.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,

1967,December
WITCHCRAFT - A 23 foot cabin cruiser that disappeared a mile offshore of Miami near the number 7 buoy about 9pm.
    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin,
    "The Bermuda Triangle" - Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey,
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,

1968, May 21 - On or about.
SCORPION, USN SUBMARINE - Number SSN 589, Skipjack class. This was the sixth Scorpion. It was laid down on August 20th,
            1958, at Groton, Connecticut at the General Dynamics Corp. Electric Boat Division. The Scorpion launched on the 19th of December, 1959.
            The ship was sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth S. Morrison and was commissioned on July 29th, 1960 under Commander Norman B. Bessac.
            The Scorpion displaced 3,075 tons on the surface and 3,500 tons when submerged. The ships beam was 31' 7" and it's length was 251' 9".
            The armament consisted of 6 torpedo tubes with a payload of ?? torpedoes
            Assigned to Submarine Squadron 6, Division 62, Scorpion departed New London, Conn., on 24 August for a two-month deployment in
            European waters. During that period, she participated in exercises with units of the 6th Fleet and of other NATO [North Atlantic Treaty
            Organization] navies. After returning to New England in late October, she trained along the eastern seaboard until May 1961, then crossed
            the Atlantic again for operations which took her into the summer. On 9 August, she returned to New London and, a month later, shifted
            to Norfolk, Va.
            With Norfolk her home port for the remainder of her career, Scorpion specialized in the development of nuclear submarine warfare tactics.
            Varying her role from hunter to hunted, she participated in exercises which ranged along the Atlantic coast and in the Bermuda and
            Puerto Rican operating areas; then, from June 1963 to May 1964, she interrupted her operations for an overhaul at Charleston, S.C.
            Resuming duty off the eastern seaboard in late spring, she again interrupted that duty from 4 August to 8 October to make a transatlantic
            patrol. In the spring of 1965, she conducted a similar patrol in European waters.
            During the late winter and early spring of 1966, and again in the fall, she was deployed for special operations. Following the completion
            of those assignments, her commanding officer received the Navy Commendation Medal for outstanding leadership, foresight, and professional
            skill. Other Scorpion officers and men were cited for meritorious achievement.
            On 1 February 1967, Scorpion entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for another extended overhaul. In late October, she commenced refresher
            training and weapons system acceptance tests. Following type training out of Norfolk, she got underway on 15 February 1968 for a
            Mediterranean deployment. She operated with the 6th Fleet, into May, and then headed west for home. On 21 May, she indicated her position
            to be about 50 miles south of the Azores. Six days later, she was reported overdue at Norfolk.
            A search was initiated, but, on 5 June, Scorpion and her crew were declared "presumed lost." Her name was struck from the Navy list on
            30 June.
            The search continued, however; and, at the end of October, the Navy's oceanographic research ship, Mizar (T-AGOR-11) located sections
            of Scorpion's hull in more than 10,000 feet of water about 400 miles southwest of the Azores. Subsequently, the Court of Inquiry was
            reconvened and other vessels, including the submersible Trieste were dispatched to the scene and collected a myriad of pictures and other data.
            Although the cause of her loss is still not ascertainable, the most probable event was the inadvertent activation of the battery of a Mark 37
            torpedo during a torpedo inspection. The torpedo, in a fully ready condition and without a propeller guard, then began a live "hot run" within
            the tube. Released from the tube, the torpedo became fully armed and successfully engaged its nearest target, Scorpion. Alternatively, the
            torpedo may have exploded in the tube owing to an uncontrollable fire in the torpedo room.
            The explosion--recorded elsewhere as a very loud acoustic event--broke the boat into two major pieces, with the forward hull section, including
            the torpedo room and most of the operations compartment, creating one impact trench while the aft section, including the reactor compartment
            and engine room, created a second impact trench. The sail is detached and lies nearby in a large debris field.
            Owing to the pressurized-water nuclear reactor in the engine room, deep ocean radiological monitoring operations were conducted in August
            and September 1986. The site had been previously monitored in 1968 and 1979 and none of the samples obtained showed any evidence of
            release of radioactivity.
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    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "The Bermuda Triangle" - Adi-Kent Thomas Jeffrey,
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche.
    "The Cousteau Almanac" - Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

1969, March 3                                                 top
BEECHCRAFT AIRPLANE
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer

1969, MARCH 23
BEECHCRAFT AIRPLANE - Possibly the same as the March 3rd airplane. lost with Dr. James Horton and
                                                                Dr. Charles Griggs. A twin engine airplane lost en route from Kingston to Nassau.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,

1969, June 7
CESSNA 172 AIRPLANE - Lost with Miss Cascio and Mr. Rosen onboard. The pilot can not see land while flying over it,
                                                            but the plane is observed from the ground.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,

1969, July
TEIGNMOUTH ELECTRON - A 41 foot trimaran skipperd by Donald Crowhurst, found abandoned in mid atlantic.
                                                                No trace of Crowhurst was ever found.

Discovery of the TEIGNMOUTH ELECTRON
    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,
ABANDONED CRAFT - A 60' white hulled yacht found keel up several hundred miles N/E of Bermuda by the ship MAPLEBANK.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche.

1969, July 2                                                        top
VAGABOND - Found abandoned by the GOLAR FROST in the mid atlantic.
    "Among the Missing" - Jay Robert Nash
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
    "Psychic in the Devil's Triangle" - James Paul Chaplin,
    "The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche.
    "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer,

1969, July 4
UNIDENTIFIED ABANDONED 35 FOOT YACHT - Sighted by the COTOPAXI
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer

1969, July 8
ABANDONED CRAFT - 36 Foot upturned hull found by HELISOMA between the Azores and Portugal
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer

1969, September
LIGHT TWIN ENGINE PLANE - Mr. and Mrs. Hector Guzman are listed on board.
   "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer
   "The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer, gives the month as October.

1969, November 2
SOUTHERN CROSS - Yacht discovered abandoned 10 miles N.E. of Cape May, New Jersey.
    "Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer,

1970, November top

JILLIE BEAN
"The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche. cargo listed as 5 tons of soda pop.

PIPER COMANCHE
"The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche.

BEECHCRAFT BONANZA
"Mystic Places" - Time Life Books. says plane did not disappear, but experienced a time and
space discrepancy.

1971, April 5

ELIZABETH
"The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved" - Lawrence David Kusche. cargo listed as paper.

"The Devil's Triangle" - Richard Winer

1971, July 26

LIGHT PLANE - Two couples vanish while flying Cub airplane from Curacao to Barbados
"Limbo of the Lost-Today" - John Wallace Spencer