| Sender | Date released | Place released | Date found | Place found | Duration (years) | Ref. |
| Pierre-Jacques Féret | 1825-01 | Cité de Limes [fr] near Dieppe s | 2024-09 | Cité de Limes [fr] near Dieppe | 199 | |
| Chunosuke Matsuyama, seaman | 1784 | Island in Pacific | 1935 | Hiraturemura, Japan | 151 | |
| James Ritchie and John Grieve | 1887-10-06 | Edinburgh, Scotland s | 2022-11-13 | Under floorboards of house | 135 | |
| Lighthouse engineers | 1892-09-04 | Rhins of Galloway (lighthouse) s | 2024-11 | Corsewall Lighthouse | 132 | |
| German sailing barque Paula | 1886-06-12 | Indian Ocean, 950 km off Western Australia | 2018-01 | Near Wedge Island, Western Australia | 131.6 | |
| Theatre builders | 1906-10 | King's Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland s | 2024-12-06 | Behind decorative crown | 118 | |
| Bricklayers Wm Hanley, James Lennon | 1907-07-03 | Montclair State University, N.J.s | 2019 | Wall in College Hall | 112 | |
| Pte Malcolm Neville and William Harley, Australian soldiers | 1916-08-15 | Great Australian Bight | 2025-10 | Wharton Beach, Western Australia | 109 | |
| George Parker Bidder, Marine Biological Association of the U.K. | 1906-11-30 | North Sea | 2015-04-17 | Amrum, Germany | 108 | |
| Karl Weyprecht, co-leader, Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition | 1874 | Lamont, Franz Josef Land, Russia s | 1978-08 | Lamont, Franz Josef Land, Russia | 104 | |
| School administrators | 1920-09-30 | School cornerstone s | 2024-04 | Owatonna High School, Minnesota, U.S. | 103.5 | |
| Richard Platz | 1913-05-17 | Baltic Sea | 2014-03 | Baltic Sea near Kiel | 101 | |
| Glasgow School of Navigation | 1914-06-10 | Near Scotland | 2012-04 | East of Shetland | 98 | |
| Selina Pramstaller, Tillie Esper | 1915 | Harsens Island, Michigan, U.S. | 2012 | Harsens Island, Michigan, U.S. | 96 | |
| George Morrow | 1926-11 | Cheboygan, MI, U.S. (presumed) | 2021-06 | Cheboygan River | 94.6 | |
| Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen | 1914-04-25 | Near Scotland | 2006-12-10 | Near Shetland | 92 | |
| Erich Sanitter, Waldenburg | 1929-07-08 | Bay of Danzig | 2019-10 | Vistula Lagoon | 90 | |
| Willi Brandt, roofer, age 18 | 1930-03-26 | Goslar, Germany s | 2018 | Goslar Cathedral roof | 88 | |
| Carl Ott (business owner) | 1930-05-20 | Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. s | 2017-02 | Construction site | 86 | |
| Thomas Hughes, WWI soldier | 1914-09-09 | English Channel | 1999-03 | Essex, River Thames | 84 | |
| Dachau prisoner Franciszek Kempa | 1941 | Inside violin s | 2025 (before 28 April) | Art dealer in Hungary | 83 | |
| "Flying Squad" joinery team | 1934-07-16 | Viewforth, Edinburgh s | 2016-11 | Wall of building | 82 | |
| John Stapleton Jr. age 14 | 1938-09-05 | Jersey, Channel Islands (deduced) | 2020-02-18 | Jersey, Channel Islands | 81.4 | |
| Navy of Czarist Russia | 1913-07 | Sea of Okhotsk, Russia | 1995 | Near Cordova, Alaska | 81 | |
| (undetermined) | 1935 | Southampton Guildhall, U.K. s | 2016 | Southampton Guildhall, U.K. | 81 | |
| "Jim" (military man) | 1945-03-04 | Virginia Beach, Virginia, Va, US | 2024-08-07 | Odessa, Florida, US | 79 | |
| Herbert E. Hillbrick | 1936 | P&O cruise ship | 2012 | Ninety Mile Beach, NZ | 76 | |
| Victor Elliott, age 13 | 1944-04-25 | Ralston, Oklahoma | 2017-11-11 | Fort Smith, Arkansas | 73 | |
| Lt. Col. Eugene J. McNamara | 1948 | Grand Hotel, Yokohama s | 2016 | New Grand Hotel | 68 | |
| Auschwitz prisoners, age 18–20 | 1944-09-09 | Near Auschwitz camp s | 2009-04 | Wall of bomb shelter | 64 | |
| WHOI | 1956-04-26 | South of Nova Scotia | 2014-01-20 | Sable Island | 57 | |
| Bureau of Commercial Fisheries | 1962-05 | Gulf of Mexico | 2019-01 | Padre Is. Nat. Seashore, Texas | 56.5 | |
| NOAA's NEFSC | 1959-09-19 | Atlantic, off Massachusetts | 2013-12-22 | Martha's Vineyard, Mass. | 54 | |
| Paul Walker, geologist | 1959-07-10 | Ward Hunt Island, N. Canada s | 2013 | Ward Hunt Island, N. Canada | 54 | |
| German Antarctic Expedition | 1903 | Btw. Kerguelen Is., Tasmania | 1955 | New Zealand | 52 | |
| Paul Tsiatsios, motel owner | 1960+ | New Hampshire, U.S. | 2011 | Turks and Caicos | 51 | |
| Soviet fishing vessel Sulak | 1969-06-20 | Pacific Ocean | 2019-08-05 | Shishmaref, Alaska | 50 | |
| 13-year-old ship passenger | 1969-11-17 | 100 mi. E. of Fremantle, W. Aus. | 2019-07 | Eyre Peninsula, S. Aus. | 49 | |
| Construction workers | 1967-05-19 | Toowoomba, QLD, Australia s | 2016-09-08 | Embedded in concrete | 49 | |
| NOAA Fisheries | 1966 | Bristol Bay, Alaska, U.S. | 2013 | Cold Bay, Alaska, U.S. | 47 | |
| High school science class | 1972-12-01 | Fire Island, N.Y., U.S. | 2019-08 | Brookhaven, L.I., N.Y., U.S. | 46.7 | |
| "Donkeyman" James Robertson | 1970-09-16 | North Sea (assumed) | 2017-01 | Norderney, Germany | 46.2 | |
| Girl, age 6 | 1971-09-06 | Indian River Bay, Delaware, U.S. | 2016-04-22 | Del. Seashore State Park | 44 | |
| Boy, age 14 | 1971-01-15 | Cove Bay, Aberdeen, U.K. | 2015 | Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire | 44 | |
| Girl, age 11 | 1974-08-29 | Old Mission Peninsula, Michigan | 2015 | Old Mission Peninsula, Michigan | 41 | |
| Two junior high school girls | 1975 | Washington state, U.S. | 2015-04-04 | Gulf of Alaska, U.S. | 40 | |
| Print shop worker, age 31 | 1983 | Omaha, Nebraska | 2020-03 | Rock Port, Missouri | 37 | |
| High School Nat. Sci. Club | 1984-07 | Chōshi, Japan | 2021 | Hawaiian Paradise Park | 37 | |
| Boy, age 16 | 1980-05-13 | Albany, W. Australia | 2016-06 | Eucla, W. Australia | 36 | |
