71 years ago 5 seal hunting vessels with 79 men on board disappeared in the Western Ice, without a trase to be found.
From an article published by “Ishavsmuseet” in Brandal, where many of the missing came from:
https://www.ishavsmuseet.no/blogger/paskeorkanen-i-vesterisen-1952/
(In Norwegian, but translate reasonably well by Google Translator)
This was caused by an intense Polar low, which was hard to forecast in those days: