For marine archeologists and historians, few issues are extra thrilling than discovering a long-lost shipwreck. Just lately, they found the stays of U-111, a World Battle I German U-boat, at a depth of 400 ft off the coast in Virginia, the place it had been deliberately sunk by the U.S. after the battle.

Historians had a good suggestion of the place the U-111 sank, however the last resting locations for some warships stays a thriller.  

To establish 20 warships that sank and disappeared, 24/7 Tempo consulted quite a lot of historic sources on ships misplaced at sea. We restricted our search to ships particularly constructed or pressed into service for fight functions. Along with vessels which have by no means been discovered, we’ve included some that have been discovered a few years after their disappearance. (These are probably the most well-known shipwrecks ever discovered.)

Click on right here to see 20 warships that sank and disappeared

The ships on this listing sank for varied causes, together with assault by one other vessel or plane throughout wartime, a raging storm, or a catastrophic mechanical downside.

Greater than half the lacking vessels on this listing are submarines; three of them sank in a single 12 months, 1968, not a kind of throughout fight. Submarine responsibility is probably the most harmful army service; 28,000, or 75%, of German submariners, died in World Battle II. (Right here’s a listing of the oldest ships and submarines nonetheless working within the U.S. Navy.) 

A number of lacking warships on our listing have notched a storied place in historical past. The HMS Endeavour, which Lieutenant James Cook dinner piloted to New Zealand and Australia within the 18th century, was scuttled by the British through the American Revolution off the Rhode Island coast. The Portuguese ship Flor de la Mar, laden with what some have referred to as the best treasure trove ever, seemingly was misplaced within the Strait of Strait of Malacca within the sixteenth century.