Charles Benton Taylor was 35 and working as a fisherman when he and his brother R.L. Taylor were last seen on October 12, 1977. They were aboard their 34-foot fishing vessel UF 22 near Kodiak Island; neither brother was ever seen again after that day.

On March 2, 1978 the fishing vessel Columbia found the wreckage of UF 22 on Aiaktalik Beach, on the south end of Kodiak Island. The boat’s discovery confirmed that a maritime tragedy had occurred, but no bodies or other signs of Charles or R.L. Taylor were recovered. The Alaska State Troopers investigated, but the sea had erased evidence and the brothers’ fate remains unresolved.

If anyone knew Charles or R.L., worked on the water around Kodiak in 1977, or has information about UF 22, please come forward.