Notable incidents

Main article: List of Bermuda Triangle incidents

HMS Atalanta
Main article: HMS Juno (1844)

HMS Atalanta
The sail training ship HMS Atalanta (originally named HMS Juno) disappeared with
her entire crew after setting sail from the Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda for
Falmouth, England on 31 January 1880.[38] It was presumed that she sank in a
powerful storm which crossed her route a couple of weeks after she sailed, and that
her crew being composed primarily of inexperienced trainees may have been a
contributing factor. The search for evidence of her fate attracted worldwide
attention at the time (connection is also often made to the 1878 loss of the
training ship HMS Eurydice, which foundered after departing the Royal Naval
Dockyard in Bermuda for Portsmouth on 6 March), and she was alleged decades later
to have been a victim of the mysterious triangle, an allegation resoundingly
refuted by the research of author David Francis Raine in 1997.[39][40][41][42][43]

USS Cyclops
Main article: USS Cyclops (AC-4)
The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US
Navy not related to combat occurred when the collier Cyclops, carrying a full load
of manganese ore and with one engine out of action, went missing without a trace
with a crew of 309 sometime after March 4, 1918, after departing the island of
Barbados. Although there is no strong evidence for any single theory, many
independent theories exist, some blaming storms, some capsizing, and some
suggesting that wartime enemy activity was to blame for the loss.[44][45] In
addition, two of Cyclops's sister ships, Proteus and Nereus were subsequently lost
in the North Atlantic during World War II. Both ships were transporting heavy loads
of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on Cyclops during her fatal
voyage. In all three cases structural failure due to overloading with a much denser
cargo than designed is considered the most likely cause of sinking.