"At 5 a.m. on 3 October 1955 the MV Joyita, a 69-foot unsinkable wooden fishing boat, slipped out of the harbour at Apia, Western Samoa, heading for Fakaofo in the Tokelau Islands. There were 25 people on board, and the voyage should have taken just under 48 hours, but the Joyita never arrived at its destination. Yet no distress message was received from the boat, and an extensive search by the Royal New Zealand Air Force failed to find any sign of it. Five weeks later, on 10 November, the Joyita was spotted by a passing ship near Fiji, 600 miles from its scheduled track, abandoned, waterlogged and adrift. Four tons of cargo were missing."