For the American Civil War gunboat, see USS Kickapoo (1864). For other military ships named "Cyclops", see Cyclops (disambiguation)#In the military.
USS Cyclops
USS Cyclops on the Hudson River in 1911
History
United States
Name
Cyclops
Namesake
Cyclops
Builder
William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number
355
Launched
7 May 1910
Commissioned
1 May 1917
Fate
Lost at sea, March 1918
General characteristics
Class and type
Proteus-class collier[citation needed]
Displacement
19,360 long tons (19,671 t) full
Length
542 ft (165 m)
Beam
65 ft (20 m)
Draft
27 ft 8 in (8.43 m)
Propulsion
2 x coal-fired boiler
2 x vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
2 x shafts
Speed
15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Capacity
8,000 long tons (8,128 t) normal maximum
10,800 long tons (10,973 t) maximum overload
Complement
236 officers and enlisted
Armament
4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns
USS Cyclops (AC-4) was the second of four Proteus-class colliers built for the United States Navy several years before World War I.[citation needed] Named after the Cyclops, a race of 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 sometime after 4 March 1918 remains the single largest loss of life in the history of the United States Navy not directly involving combat.
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 10,800 long tons (10,973 t) of manganese ore used to produce munitions, but German authorities at the time, and subsequently, denied any knowledge of the vessel.[1] The Naval History & Heritage Command has stated she "probably sank in an unexpected storm",[2] but the cause of the ship's loss is not known.
^Reck, Alfred P. (June 1929). "Strangest American Sea Mystery is Solved at Last". Popular Science Monthly. Vol. 114, no. 6. pp. 15–17, 137. Retrieved 8 July 2009. In this article, Amolco was erroneously called Amalco.
^"Bermuda Triangle". Naval History & Heritage Command. United States Navy. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
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