USS Cyclops - Revision history

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Prisoners of the Cyclops

Karajou at 13:51, July 21, 2009

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 ==Bermuda Triangle connection==
-The loss of USS ''Cyclops'' with all 306 crew and passengers, without a trace, is one of the sea's unsolved mysteries, and is often "credited" to the [[Bermuda Triangle]].  In his 1975 book ''The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved'', author [[Lawrence Kusche]] investigated this mystery. He revealed that in 1968 a Navy diver off Norfolk, Virginia reported finding the wreck of an old ship in about 300 feet of water, stating that the bridge "appeared to be on stilts." He was later shown a picture of ''Cyclops'' (which had that peculiar bridge structure) and was convinced it was the ship he had seen. This would have put ''Cyclops'' to within 60 miles of the Virginia Capes - she was actually sighted on March 9 by a merchant vessel, S.S. ''Amalco'' near the Capes - and into the teeth of a major storm that hit the area on March 9-10, 1918, a storm recorded in history but never mentioned by the various Triangle authors.  This storm, which had earlier done extensive damage between Indiana and Washington, D.C., and combined with ''Cyclop's'' unusual cargo of manganese, may have sunk her.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=XSgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=Popular+Science+1931+plane&hl=en&ei=XeARTe7ZJ4alnQf84KjpDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q&f=true</ref>
+The loss of USS ''Cyclops'' with all 306 crew and passengers without a trace is one of the sea's great unsolved mysteries, and is often "credited" to the [[Bermuda Triangle]].  In his 1975 book ''The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved'', author [[Lawrence Kusche]] investigated this mystery. He revealed that in 1968 a Navy diver off Norfolk, Virginia reported finding the wreck of an old ship in about 300 feet of water, stating that the bridge "appeared to be on stilts." He was later shown a picture of ''Cyclops'' (which had that peculiar bridge structure) and was convinced it was the ship he had seen. This would have put ''Cyclops'' to within 60 miles of the Virginia Capes - she was actually sighted on March 9 by a merchant vessel, S.S. ''Amalco''<ref>http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1918-04-19/ed-1/seq-11/</ref> near the Capes - and into the teeth of a major storm that hit the area on March 9-10, 1918, a storm recorded in history but never mentioned by the various Triangle authors.  This storm, which had earlier done extensive damage between Indiana and Washington, D.C., and combined with ''Cyclop's'' unusual cargo of manganese, may have sunk her.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=XSgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=Popular+Science+1931+plane&hl=en&ei=XeARTe7ZJ4alnQf84KjpDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q&f=true</ref>
 Most who link the disappearance to the Bermuda Triangle cite the fact that the vessel disappeared having sent out no distress signal. However, ship-board communications were in their infant stages in 1918, and it would not be unusual for a vessel, sinking fast, to have little or no opportunity at a distress call.<ref>http://byerly.org/BTcyclops_death_list.htm</ref>  To date, no trace of the wreckage has been found.

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 [[Image:NYTcyclops.jpg|thumb|250px|right|New York Times reported the loss of the ''Cyclops'' on April 15, 1918.]]
 Naval investigators discovered information from former crewmembers about Worley's habits.  He would berate and curse officers and men for minor offenses, sometimes getting violent; at one point, he had allegedly chased an ensign about the ship with a gun.  Saner times would find him making his rounds about the ship dressed in long underwear and a derby hat.  Worley sometimes would have an inexperienced officer in charge of loading cargo on the ship while the more experienced man was under arrest; in Rio de Janeiro, one such man was assigned to oversee the loading of [[manganese]] ore, something a collier was not used to carrying, and in this instance the ship was overloaded, which may have contributed to its sinking.  The phrase "damned Dutchman" (from ''Deutch'', i.e. ''German'') stood out immediately, leading to the most serious accusation against Worley: that he was pro-German in war time and may have colluded with the enemy; indeed, his closest friends and associates were either German or Americans of German descent. "Many Germanic names appear" Livingston stated, speculating that the ship had many German sympathizers on board.  One of the passengers on the final voyage was Alfred Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the consul-general in Rio de Janeiro, who was as roundly hated for his pro-German sympathies as was Worley, and Livingston stated he believed Gottschalk may have been directly involved in collaborating with Worley on handing the ship over to the Germans. [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/letter_on_gottschalk.html]  After [[World War I]], German records were checked to ascertain the fate of the ''Cyclops'', whether by Worley's hand or by submarine attack. Nothing was found.
 ===Prisoners of the ''Cyclops''===

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 ==Sister ships==
-The ''Cyclops'' was the sister ship of USS Jupiter (AC-3), USS Proteus (AC-9), and USS Nereus (AC-10).  ''Proteus'' and ''Nereus'' served in the Navy until decommissioned in 1924, remaining in mothballs until sold to Canadian firms in 1940.  Both were lost at sea from unknown causes in 1941.  ''Jupiter'' was stripped of her coaling booms in 1920 to make room for a wooden flight deck and becoming the Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS ''Langley''.
+The ''Cyclops'' was the sister ship of USS ''Jupiter'' (AC-3), USS ''Proteus'' (AC-9), and USS ''Nereus'' (AC-10).  ''Proteus'' and ''Nereus'' served in the Navy until decommissioned in 1924, remaining in mothballs until sold to Canadian firms in 1940.  Both were lost at sea from unknown causes in 1941.  ''Jupiter'' was stripped of her coaling booms in 1920 to make room for a wooden flight deck, becoming the Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS ''Langley''.
 ==Newspaper References==

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 * [http://www.numa.net/expeditions/cyclops.html NUMA site and Clive Cussler's brief report on the ''Cyclops''.]
 * [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/u_s_s__cyclops.html The Disappearance of the U.S.S. ''Cyclops'']
-* [http://www.archive.org/stream/squadronofunited00swinrich/squadronofunited00swinrich_djvu.txt ''A squadron of the United States Navy : on a friendly cruise around Latin America'', by William Wallace Swinyer (1918); author lists the entire crew of USS ''Pittburgh'', including the prisoners taken aboard ''Cyclops'']
+* [http://www.archive.org/stream/squadronofunited00swinrich/squadronofunited00swinrich_djvu.txt ''A squadron of the United States Navy : on a friendly cruise around Latin America'', by William Wallace Swinyer (1918); author lists the entire crew of USS ''Pittsburgh'', including the prisoners taken aboard ''Cyclops'']
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 * [http://www.numa.net/expeditions/cyclops.html NUMA site and Clive Cussler's brief report on the ''Cyclops''.]
 * [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/u_s_s__cyclops.html The Disappearance of the U.S.S. ''Cyclops'']
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 ===Prisoners of the ''Cyclops''===
-Several months before the ''Cyclops'' had arrived in Rio, a murder was committed onboard the armored cruiser USS ''Pittsburgh'' while anchored with the South American Squadron, and in the resulting court-marshal five individuals were sentenced to many years in prison at hard labor; one was given a life sentence, and one was sentenced to death.  Since the ''Cyclops'' was headed back to the United States, these prisoners were taken onboard as passengers, albeit in irons.  It was rumored by Livingston in his letter that one of the men may have been executed on Worley's orders before they reached Barbados. [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/telegram.html]
+Several months before the ''Cyclops'' had arrived in Rio, a murder was committed onboard the armored cruiser USS ''Pittsburgh'' while anchored with the South American Squadron; a 3rd-class fireman named Oscar Stewart was the victim, found in a pool of blood in one of the boiler rooms.  Court-marshaled for the offense were Bernard DeVoe, Moss Whiteside, James Coker, and two others; Whiteside received 15 years, DeVoe life, and Coker death.  With the exception of Coker, the others were taken aboard the ''Cyclops'' as passengers, albeit in irons.  It was rumored by Livingston in his letter that one of the men may have been executed on Worley's orders before they reached Barbados. [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/telegram.html][http://www.archive.org/stream/squadronofunited00swinrich/squadronofunited00swinrich_djvu.txt][http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyUS-CasualtiesAlphaS.htm]
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 '''USS ''Cyclops''''' was one of four [[USS Proteus (AC-9)|''Proteus''-class]] [[collier]]s built for the [[United States Navy]] prior to [[World War I]], and the second ship to bear the name. The loss of the ship and 306 crew and passengers without a trace sometime after March 4, 1918 remains the single largest loss of life in the history of the Navy not directly involving combat.

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	* [http://www.numa.net/expeditions/cyclops.html NUMA site and Clive Cussler's brief report on the ''Cyclops''.]		* [http://www.numa.net/expeditions/cyclops.html NUMA site and Clive Cussler's brief report on the ''Cyclops''.]
	* [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/u_s_s__cyclops.html The Disappearance of the U.S.S. ''Cyclops'']		* [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/u_s_s__cyclops.html The Disappearance of the U.S.S. ''Cyclops'']
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