The Unsettling Disappearance of USS Cyclops

In March 1918, the nearly 20,000-ton USS Cyclops vanished without a trace while sailing through the Bermuda Triangle. What happened to collier and the 309 souls on board remains a mystery to this day.

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Sources:
A Passage to Oblivion: The Last Voyage of the USS Cyclops by Gian Quasar
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/publications/documentary-histories/united-states-navy-s/coal.html
https://www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/AC/AC04.html
https://maint.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/60th-congress/session-1/c60s1ch166.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/baltimore-bound-uss-cyclops-vanished-100-years-ago-its-fate-remains-a-mystery/2018/03/15/f50a3682-279f-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1969/july/cyclops-mystery
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2021/10/28/her-loss-remains-unknown-the-mysterious-disappearance-of-the-uss-cyclops-ac-4/
https://navyhistory.org/2013/06/unanswered-loss-uss-cyclops-march-1918/
https://doughboy.org/from-all-walks-of-life-sailors-of-the-uss-cyclops/

Chapters:
00:00 USS Cyclops
1:10 Chapter 1: One-Eyed Monster
5:58 Chapter 2: Balmy Tropical Nights
10:26 Chapter 3: The Final Voyage
13:55 Chapter 4: Searching for the Monster
17:02 Chapter 5: Exploring the Enigma
20:35 Chapter 6: Proteus & Nereus

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