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The S.S. Cotopaxi * was a tramp steamer named after the Cotopaxi stratovolcano, and lost under mysterious circumstances in December 1925, while en route from Charleston, South Carolina, 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, bizarrely enough, in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia (though the ship in the film and the real Cotopaxi do not look alike).
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