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{{Short description|United States navy ship lost at sea in 1918}}
{{for-text|the American Civil War gunboat|[[USS Kickapoo (1864)]]|other military ships named "Cyclops"|[[Cyclops (disambiguation)#In the military]]}}
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| Ship caption = USS ''Cyclops'' on the Hudson River in 1911
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| Ship country = United States
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| Ship name = ''Cyclops''
| Ship namesake = [[Cyclops]]
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| Ship builder = [[William Cramp & Sons]], [[Philadelphia]]
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| Ship launched = 7 May 1910
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| Ship commissioned = 1 May 1917
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| Ship fate = Lost at sea, March 1918
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| Ship class = ''Proteus''-class [[Collier (ship type)|collier]]{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}
| Ship displacement = {{convert|19360|LT|t|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} full
| Ship length = {{convert|542|ft|m|abbr=on}}
| Ship beam = {{convert|65|ft|m|abbr=on}}
| Ship draft = {{convert|27|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}}
| Ship propulsion = *2 x coal-fired boiler
*2 x vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine 
*2 x shafts
| Ship speed = {{convert|15|kn|lk=on|abbr=on}}
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| Ship complement = 236 officers and enlisted
| Ship armament = 4 × {{convert|4|in|mm|abbr=on}} guns
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| Ship capacity = *{{convert|8000|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} ''normal maximum''
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'''USS ''Cyclops'' (AC-4)''' was the second of four [[USS Proteus (AC-9)|''Proteus''-class]] [[Collier (ship)|collier]]s built for the [[United States Navy]] several years before [[World War I]]. Named after the [[Cyclops]], a race of [[Giant (mythology)|giants]] from [[Greek mythology]], she was the second U.S. naval vessel to bear the name. The loss of the ship and 306 crew and passengers without a trace occurred sometime after 4 March 1918.

As the loss occurred during World War I, she was thought to have been captured or sunk by a German raider or submarine because she was carrying {{convert|10800|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} of [[manganese]] ore used to produce munitions, but German authorities at the time subsequently denied any knowledge of the vessel.<ref name="Strange">{{cite magazine|last=Reck|first=Alfred P.|date=June 1929|volume=114|number=6|title=Strangest American Sea Mystery is Solved at Last|magazine=[[Popular Science Monthly]]|pages=15–17, 137|url={{Google books|XSgDAAAAMBAJ|Strangest American Sea Mystery is Solved at Last|page=PA15|plainurl=yes}}|access-date=8 July 2009}} In this article, ''Amolco'' was erroneously called ''Amalco''.</ref> The [[Naval History & Heritage Command]] has stated she "probably sank in an unexpected storm",<ref name="Bermuda Triangle">{{cite web|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-1.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970709142851/http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-1.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 July 1997|title=Bermuda Triangle|work=Naval History & Heritage Command|publisher=[[United States Navy]]|access-date=4 March 2012}}</ref> but the cause of the ship's loss is not known.

==History==
''Cyclops'' was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 7 May 1910, by [[William Cramp & Sons]] of [[Philadelphia]] and placed in service on 7 November 1910. Operating with the Naval Auxiliary Service, [[United States Fleet Forces Command|Atlantic Fleet]], she voyaged in the [[Baltic Sea|Baltic]] from May to July 1911 to supply Second Division ships. Returning to [[Norfolk, Virginia]], she operated on the east coast from [[Newport, Rhode Island]], to the [[Caribbean]], servicing the fleet. During the [[United States occupation of Veracruz]] in [[Mexico]] in 1914 and 1915, she coaled ships on patrol there and received the thanks of the [[U.S. Department of State]] for cooperation in evacuating refugees.<ref name=Danfs>{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Mark |date=6 September 2018 |title=Cyclops II (Fuel Ship No. 4) |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/cyclops-fuel-ship-no-4-ii1.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304045507/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/cyclops-fuel-ship-no-4-ii1.html |archive-date=4 March 2023 |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=Naval History and Heritage Command|language=en-US}}</ref>

With [[American entry into World War I]], ''Cyclops'' was commissioned on 1 May 1917. She joined a convoy for [[Saint-Nazaire]], France, in June 1917, returning to the U.S. in July. Except for a voyage to [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]], she served along the East Coast until 9 January 1918, when she was assigned to the [[Naval Overseas Transportation Service]]. She then sailed to [[Brazil]]ian waters to fuel British ships in the South Atlantic, receiving the thanks of the U.S. State Department and Commander-in-Chief, Pacific.<ref name="Danfs" /><ref>[http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/%7Ecacunithistories/hr_mallory.htm USS Henry R. Mallory]</ref>

===Disappearance===
The ship put to sea from [[Rio de Janeiro]] on 16 February 1918, and entered [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]] on 20 February. Two days later, she departed for [[Baltimore]], Maryland, with no stops scheduled, carrying the manganese ore. The ship was thought to be overloaded when she left Brazil, as her maximum capacity was {{convert|8000|LT|t|0|abbr=on}}. Before leaving port, Commander Worley had submitted a report that the starboard engine had a cracked cylinder and was not operative. This report was confirmed by a survey board, which recommended, however, that the ship be returned to the United States. She made an unscheduled stop in [[Barbados]] because the water level was over the [[Load line (watercraft)|Plimsoll line]], indicating that it was overloaded,<ref name="Strange" /> but investigations in Rio proved the ship had been loaded and secured properly.<ref name="bermuda-triangle.org">{{cite web|url= http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/cyclops_pg3.html|title=USS ''Cyclops'' (page 3)|first=Gian J.|last=Quasar|access-date=4 March 2012}}</ref> ''Cyclops'' then set out for Baltimore on 4 March, and was rumored to have been sighted on 9 March by the [[molasses]] tanker ''Amolco'' near Virginia,<ref name="Strange" /> but this was denied by ''Amolco''{{'}}s captain.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/q_a.html|first=Gian J.|last=Quasar|title=Frequently Asked Questions|access-date=4 March 2012}}</ref><ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1918-04-19/ed-1/seq-11/;words=Amolco?date1=1918&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1918&proxtext=Amolco+&y=12&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=0 However, see ''The Washington Times'' 19 April 1918, page 11, column 2]</ref> Additionally, because ''Cyclops'' was not due in Baltimore until 13 March,<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/cyclops_pg2.html|title=USS ''Cyclops'' (page 2)|first=Gian J.|last=Quasar|access-date=4 March 2012}}</ref> the ship was highly unlikely to have been near Virginia on 9 March, as that location would have placed her only about a day from Baltimore. In any event, ''Cyclops'' never arrived in Baltimore, and no wreckage of the ship has ever been found.<ref name="usnsh-c/cyclops.htm">[https://web.archive.org/web/20000511215309/http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/cyclops.htm USN Ships–USS Cyclops (1910–1918)]</ref><ref>[https://numa.net/expeditions/cyclops/ What possibly could  have been wreckage of the Cyclops may have been accidentally found in 1968 NUMA report]</ref>

===Aftermath===
That ''Cyclops'' was overdue and feared lost was front-page news in various American newspapers on 15 April 1918, following an announcement by the Navy.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-naval-collier-cyclops-m/137866023/ |title=Naval Collier Cyclops Missing, 18 New Englanders Among 293 Feared Lost |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=1 |date=April 15, 1918 |accessdate=January 1, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-big-collier-is-m/137866155/ |title=Big Collier Is Missingt |newspaper=[[Chattanooga Daily Times]] |location=[[Chattanooga, Tennessee]] |page=1 |date=April 15, 1918 |accessdate=January 1, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>

On 1 June 1918, Assistant Secretary of the Navy [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] declared ''Cyclops'' to be officially lost, and all hands deceased.<ref name="Cutler2005">{{cite book|last=Cutler|first=Thomas J.|title=A sailor's history of the U.S. Navy|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4SDNJtV85RIC&pg=PA199|access-date=4 March 2012|year=2005|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn= 978-1-59114-151-8|page=199}}</ref>{{efn|Newspapers reported that ''Cyclops'' was declared officially lost in late August 1918 by Secretary of the Navy [[Josephus Daniels]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-missing-cyclops-officia/137871845/ |title=Missing Cyclops Officially Lost |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=10 |date=August 31, 1918 |accessdate=January 1, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>}} The loss of ''Cyclops'' was noted in the ''Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy'' for 1918.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy |author=United States Department of the Navy |year=1918 |page=28 |publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office|GPO]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qGSM61lS23QC&pg=PA28}}</ref>

One of the seamen lost aboard ''Cyclops'' was African-American mess attendant Lewis H. Hardwick, the father of [[Herbert Lewis Hardwick]], "The Cocoa Kid", an [[List of Puerto Ricans of African descent|Afro-Puerto Rican]] welterweight boxer who was a top contender in the 1930s and 1940s, who won the [[World Colored Welterweight Championship|world colored welterweight]] and [[World Colored Middleweight Championship|world colored middleweight]] championships.<ref>{{cite web|last=Toledo|first=Springs|title='Just Watch Mah Smoke,' Part I: Lost at Sea|date=10 March 2011 |url=http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/12170-just-watch-mah-smoke-part-i-lost-at-sea|website=The Sweet Science|access-date=26 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312003700/http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/12170-just-watch-mah-smoke-part-i-lost-at-sea |archive-date=March 12, 2011 |via=[[Wayback Machine]]}}</ref>

===Possible explanations===
[[File:USS Cyclops map by US Weather Bureau.png|thumb|right|A map prepared by the [[United States Weather Bureau|U.S. Weather Bureau]] and published in the June 1929 issue of ''[[Popular Science Monthly]]'', showing weather conditions at the time the ''Cyclops'' was lost]]

As ''Cyclops'' disappeared during World War I, and submarines of the [[Imperial German Navy]] were known to operate in the [[West Indies]], the ship being lost due to hostile action was considered.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-fear-cyclops-was-submar/137871248/ |title=Fear Cyclops Was Submarine Victim |newspaper=[[New-York Tribune]] |page=4 |date=June 5, 1918 |accessdate=January 1, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> However, the German navy denied any involvement, or having even seen ''Cyclops'', both during and after the war.<ref name="Strange"/>

Reports indicate that on 10 March, the day after ''Cyclops'' was rumored to have been sighted by ''Amolco,'' a violent storm swept through the [[Virginia Capes]] area. While some suggest that the combination of the overloaded condition, engine trouble, and bad weather may have conspired to sink ''Cyclops,''<ref name="Strange" /> an extensive naval investigation concluded: "Many theories have been advanced, but none that satisfactorily accounts for her disappearance."<ref name="bermuda-triangle.org" /> This summation was written, however, before two of ''Cyclops''{{'}}s [[sister ship]]s, {{USS|Proteus|AC-9|2}} and {{USS|Nereus|AC-10|2}}, vanished at sea during [[World War II]] less than a year after their sale to civilian operators. Both ships were transporting heavy loads of metallic ore similar to that which was loaded on ''Cyclops'' during her fatal voyage. In both cases, their loss was theorized to have been the result of catastrophic structural failure,<ref>[http://familyheritage.ca/Articles/merchant1.html Canadian Merchant Ship Losses of the Second World War, 1939–1945]</ref> but a more outlandish theory attributes all three vessels' disappearances to the [[Bermuda Triangle]].<ref>Eyers, Jonathan (2011). ''Don't Shoot the Albatross!: Nautical Myths and Superstitions.'' A&C Black, London, UK. {{ISBN|978-1-4081-3131-2}}.</ref>

Rear Admiral George van Deurs suggested that the loss of ''Cyclops'' could be owing to structural failure, as her sister ships suffered from issues where the [[I-beam]]s that ran the length of the ship had eroded due to the corrosive nature of some of the cargo carried. This was observed definitively on {{USS|Jason|AC-12|6}}, and is believed to have contributed to the sinking of another similar freighter, ''Chuky,'' which snapped in two in calm seas. Moreover, ''Cyclops'' may have hit a storm with {{convert|30|-|40|kn|adj=on}} winds. These would have resulted in waves just far enough apart to leave the bow and stern supported on the peaks of successive waves, but with the middle unsupported, resulting in extra strain on the already weakened central area.<ref name="Without Trace">{{cite book|last=Harris|first=John|title=Without Trace|year=1981|publisher=Richard Clay ltd|location=Bungay, Suffolk|pages=179–182}}</ref>{{efn|In 1929, the ''Popular Science Monthly'' story research found that ''Cyclops'' had probably been lost in a storm. Separately, [[Larry Kusche]], author of ''The Bermuda Triangle Mystery – Solved'' (1975), came to the same conclusion.}}

For a [[BBC Radio 4]] documentary in 2009, [[Tom Mangold]] had an expert from [[Lloyd's of London|Lloyd's]] investigate the loss of ''Cyclops.'' The expert noted that manganese ore, being much denser than coal, had room to move within the holds even when fully laden, the hatch covers were canvas, and that when wet, the ore can become a slurry. As such, the load could shift and cause the ship to [[List (ship)|list]]. Combined with a possible loss of power from its one engine, it could founder in bad weather.<ref>Mangold, Tom ''Inside the Bermuda Triangle: the Mysteries Solved'' BBC Radio 4 2009.</ref>

==The captain==
[[File:George W Worley.jpg|thumb|Lieutenant Commander George W. Worley, United States Naval Reserve]]
Investigations by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] revealed that Captain Worley was born Johan Frederick Wichmann in [[Sandstedt]], [[Kingdom of Hanover|Hanover]], Germany in 1862 (the official Navy Register lists his date of birth as 11 December 1865), and that he had entered North America by jumping ship in San Francisco in 1878. By 1898, he had changed his name to Worley (after a seaman friend), and owned and operated a saloon in San Francisco's [[Barbary Coast, San Francisco, California|Barbary Coast]]. He also got help from brothers, whom he had convinced to emigrate. During this time, he had qualified for the position of ship's master, and had commanded several civilian merchant ships, picking up and delivering cargo (both legal and illegal; some accounts say [[opium]]) from the Far East to San Francisco. The crews of these ships reported that Worley suffered from a personality allegedly akin to that sometimes ascribed to [[HMS Pandora (1779)|HMS ''Pandora'']]'s captain [[Edward Edwards (Royal Navy officer)|Edward Edwards]], with the crew often being brutalized by Worley for trivial things.  Worley was commissioned as a lieutenant commander in the Naval Auxiliary Reserve on 21 February 1917.<ref>US Navy Register of Commissioned Officers. 1918. pg. 336.</ref>

Naval investigators discovered information from former crew members 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 pistol. Saner times found him making his rounds about the ship dressed in long underwear and a derby hat.<ref name="Sealift">{{cite web|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-3.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970206093329/http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq8-3.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 February 1997|title=Bermuda Triangle|last=Rosenberg|first=Howard L.|date=June 1974|work= Sealift|publisher=[[United States Navy]]|pages=11–15|access-date=4 March 2012}}</ref> Worley sometimes would have an inexperienced officer take charge of loading cargo onto the ship while a more experienced man was [[house arrest|confined to quarters]]. 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 may have been overloaded, which may have contributed to her sinking. The most serious accusation against Worley was that he was pro-German in wartime 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. Livingston stated he believed Gottschalk may have been directly involved in collaborating with Worley on handing the ship over to the Germans.<ref>[http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/letter_on_gottschalk.html Letter on Gottschalk] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629024238/http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/letter_on_gottschalk.html |date=29 June 2006 }}</ref> After World War I, German records were checked to ascertain the fate of ''Cyclops'', whether by Worley's hand or by submarine attack. Nothing was found.

Near the time the search for ''Cyclops'' was called off, a telegram was received by the State Department from [[Charles Ludlow Livingston]], the U.S. consul on Barbados:
:''Secretary of State''
:''Washington, D.C.''
:'' 17,, 2 April p.m.''
:''Department's 15th. Confidential. Master CYCLOPS stated that required six hundred tons coal having sufficient on board to reach Bermuda. Engines very poor condition. Not sufficient funds and therefore requested payment by me. Unusually reticent. I have ascertained he took here ton fresh meat, ton flour, thousand pounds vegetables, paying therefore 775 dollars. From different sources gather the following: he had plenty of coal, alleged inferior, took coal to mix, probably had more than fifteen hundred tons. Master alluded to by others as damned Dutchman, apparently disliked by other officers. Rumored disturbances en route hither, men confined and one executed; also had some prisoners from the fleet in Brazilian waters, one life sentence. United States Consul-General Gottschalk passenger, 231 crew exclusive of officers and passengers. Have names of crew but not of all the officers and passengers. Many Germanic names appear. Number telegraphic or wireless messages addressed to master or in care of ship were delivered at this port. All telegrams for Barbados on file head office St. Thomas. I have to suggest scrutiny there. While not having any definite grounds I fear fate worse than sinking though possibly based on instinctive dislike felt towards master.''

:''LIVINGSTON, CONSUL''.<ref>[http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/telegram.html Telegram] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629023909/http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/telegram.html |date=29 June 2006 }}</ref>

Some reports attribute the telegram to Brockholst Livingston, but he was actually the 13-year-old son of the consul.<ref>[http://heritagebooks.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HBI&Product_Code=101-B5186&Category_Code=mil Barrash, Marvin. (2010). ''U.S.S. Cyclops''. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109225832/http://heritagebooks.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HBI&Product_Code=101-B5186&Category_Code=mil |date=9 January 2016 }} {{ISBN|0-7884-5186-3}}</ref>

==Sister ships==
''Cyclops'' had three sister ships, all commissioned in 1913, which were all ill-fated.

* {{USS|Jupiter|AC-3|6}} was a military ship converted to an aircraft carrier between 1920 and 1922 and was recommissioned as {{USS|Langley|CV-1|6}}. ''Langley'' was the first American aircraft carrier and was vital in developing United States naval aviation capabilities. She was converted again between 1936 and 1937 as a seaplane tender and redesignated as AV-3. She was stationed in the Philippines in December 1941 and departed for Australia following the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. On 27 February 1942, while ferrying fighter planes to Southeast Asia, she was attacked by Japanese aircraft and was hit by five bombs, causing critical damage. After her surviving crew members were rescued, ''Langley'' was scuttled by torpedoes fired by her escorting destroyers.<ref>{{cite DANFS|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/l/langley-i.html|title=USS Langley (CV-1)}}</ref>
* {{USS|Proteus|AC-9|6}} was sold on 8 March 1941, became part of the [[Canadian Merchant Navy]], and was lost at sea without a trace, probably in or near the [[Caribbean Sea]], sometime after 25 November 1941 with a load of [[bauxite|bauxite ore]].<ref>{{cite DANFS|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p12/proteus-ii.htm|title=USS Proteus (AC-9)}}</ref>
* {{USS|Nereus|AC-10|6}} was sold to the Aluminium Company of Canada on 27 February 1941. She was lost without a trace after departing [[Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands]], sometime after 10 December 1941, with a load of [[bauxite|bauxite ore]].<ref>{{cite DANFS|title=USS Nereus (AC-10)|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/n3/nereus-ii.htm}}</ref>

==USS ''Cyclops'' in fiction==
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In 1986, [[Clive Cussler]]'s [[Dirk Pitt]] novel ''[[Cyclops (novel)|Cyclops]]'' depicts Pitt finding the wreck of the USS ''Cyclops''.

In the ''[[Quantum Leap (1989 TV series)|Quantum Leap]]'' episode "Ghost Ship" a former [[WW2]] pilot tells Sam Beckett he was picked up by USS ''Cyclops'' when his squadron crashed during a storm in the Bermuda Triangle before itself was sunk with him as the only survivor; Al reveals the ship was from the First World War.

The ship is referenced in the 2019 horror-adventure game ''[[The Sinking City]]''. Charles Winfield Reed, the game's protagonist, served on the USS ''Cyclops'' as a sailor and diver before her mysterious sinking, of which he is the sole survivor. Its loss at sea is hinted to have been caused by the otherworldly events which cause Charles to see visions. The ship's sinking and Reed's subsequent experiences prior to the game's beginning also closely mirror that of the unnamed protagonist of the [[H. P. Lovecraft]] short story "[[Dagon (short story)|Dagon]]."

The USS ''Cyclops'' is encountered in the first episode of the 2005 television miniseries, ''[[The Triangle (miniseries)|The Triangle]]''. In the story, a team of four experts is assembled by a shipping magnate to investigate the mysterious disappearance of some of his vessels. The team discovers the sunken wreck of the ''Cyclops'' whilst conducting research in the Bermuda Triangle aboard a submarine.

A ship implied to be the USS ''Cyclops'' also appeared in the 2006 animated movie ''[[Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!]]'' It was shown in a scene where the main protagonists are about to enter the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, so the movie seems to suggest that the disappearance of the ship is linked to the mystical, supernatural powers and the legends of the Bermuda Triangle. As it passes by the ship carrying the protagonists, it is confirmed by [[Velma Dinkley|Velma]] to be the ''Cyclops''.

==See also==
*[[List of missing ships]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Sources==
{{Commons category}}
*{{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/cyclops-fuel-ship-no-4-ii1.html}}
*{{cite web|title=AC-4 ''Cyclops'' |work=Service Ship Photo Archive |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/publications/documentary-histories/wwi/march-1918/illustrations/cyclops.html |access-date=26 January 2020 }} 
*[http://www.numa.net/expeditions/cyclops/ NUMA site and Clive Cussler's brief report on ''Cyclops''.]
*Barrash, Marvin. ''U.S.S. Cyclops'' (2010).  Westminster, MD: Heritage Books 2010. {{ISBN|0788451863}}

;Newspaper articles of 1918
*"Cold High Winds Do $25,000 Damage'" ''Washington Post'', 11 March 1918
*"Collier Overdue A Month", ''The New York Times'', 15 April 1918
*"More Ships Hunt For Missing Cyclops", ''The New York Times'', 16 April 1918
*"Haven't Given Up Hope For Cyclops", ''The New York Times'', 17 April 1918
*"Collier Cyclops Is Lost; 293 Persons on Board; Enemy Blow Suspected", ''The Washington Post'', 15 April 1918
*"U.S. Consul Gottschalk Coming To Enter The War", ''The Washington Post'', 15 April 1918
*"Cyclops Skipper Teuton, 'Tis Said", ''The Washington Post'', 16 April 1918
*"Fate of Ship Baffles", ''The Washington Post'', 16 April 1918
*"Steamer Met Gale on Cyclops' Course", ''The Washington Post'', 19 April 1918

;Newspaper articles after 1918
*{{cite news |year=1929 |title=Navy Believes Cyclops' Fate Is Cleared Up |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19290214&id=3kNPAAAAIBAJ&pg=7079,4496419|newspaper=The St. Petersburg Times|access-date=2013-12-27 }}
*{{cite news |year=1930 |title=Navy Probes 12-Year Mystery of Sinking of Cyclops|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19300703&id=IJIfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3919,4415791 |newspaper=The Southeast Missourian |access-date=2013-12-27 }}
*{{cite news |date=1939-10-07 |title=The Cyclops Vanished |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19391007&id=MZVVAAAAIBAJ&pg=7207,4092167 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=2013-12-27 }}
*{{cite news |last=Wynne |first=Vance |year=1942 |title=The Mystery of the Cyclops |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19420203&id=tJFRAAAAIBAJ&pg=2150,653238 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|access-date=2013-12-27 }}
*{{cite news |year=1973 |title=Navy Reopens Search|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1798&dat=19730622&id=YM0iAAAAIBAJ&pg=1254,1369785 |newspaper=Sarasota Journal |access-date=2013-12-27 }}
*{{cite news |year=1973 |title=Has Cyclops been found? |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19730622&id=tfZNAAAAIBAJ&pg=760,1227133|newspaper=The Free Lance-Star |access-date=2013-12-27 }}
*{{cite news |year=2021 |title= USS Cyclops details unlock the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle
 |url=https://upsidechronicles.com/2021/09/08/new-theory-on-bermuda-triangle-disappearances/|newspaper=Upside Chronicles |access-date=2021-09-08 }}

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