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A ship with 20 people on board has disappeared between the Bahamas and the US state of Florida.

A three-day search was unsuccessful, the US Coast Guard announced on Saturday.

The ship left the Bahamas island of Bimini on Monday and was scheduled to reach 50 miles (80 kilometers) in Lake Worth in Florida on the same day.

When the ship did not arrive, the coast guard was alerted on Tuesday, a spokesman said. Search teams from both countries searched an area of ​​around 44,000 square meters from the air and at sea for three days. The search was stopped on Friday without any results.