SS Cotopaxi

SS Cotopaxi

The S.S. "Cotopaxi" [http://www.merchant-navy.net/Pictures/cotopaxi.html] was a tramp steamer named after the Cotopaxi stratovolcano, and lost under mysterious circumstances in December 1925, while en route from Charleston, South Carolina, USA, to Havana, Cuba.

The "Cotopaxi", under the command of a Capt. Meyers, reported by radio that it was listing and had water in its hold, and was never seen again. All 32 crew were apparently lost. Although the last radio transmission seems to indicate that there is little doubt that the ship sank, it has since been connected to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.

The ship appears in the special edition of the 1977 science fiction film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", deposited in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, though the ship in the film and the real-life "Cotopaxi" do not look alikeFact|date=July 2008.

It also appears along with the 'Connemera', 'Cyclops' and 'Raifuku Maru' in the PC first-person shooter game "The Ship" in which it disappeared because the owner of the ship wants to convince the passengers to kill each other to survive for his own amusement.


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