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The Mystery of the USS Cyclopes
by Richard Senate
FATE :: November 2007
There is no more baffling mystery in the annals of the Navy than the disappearance of the USS Cyclopes.” So wrote Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels about the loss of the massive coal ship in 1918. Today this mystery is listed as one of the many cases linked to the zone of water called the Bermuda Triangle. But what if the fate of the Cyclopes might be explained in examining her last fateful voyage and all the odd occurrences that took place on that journey into oblivion?
On February 21, 1918, she left Bahaia, Brazil, with 309 passengers and crew and a load of 10,800 tons of manganese ore. Her destination was Baltimore, Maryland, with an estimated arrival date of March 7, 1918. She was set to make no stops and carried coal and supplies for the voyage back to the United States.
For reasons unknown, Capt. George Worley put the huge ship into the harbor at Bridgetown, Barbados, on March 3. Here he ordered over 800 tons of coal and 180 tons of supplies. The American agents reported that messages were waiting for the captain and he seemed to act nervous. He explained that the coal he was given in Brazil was somehow bad and there were other problems. He even stated that he had been forced to execute a member of the crew during the voyage! After paying top dollar for the extra supplies, the ship left Barbados. She was last spotted by a British gunboat far out to sea, heading in the wrong direction. The gunboat made contact and escorted the USS Cyclopes back on the proper heading. She was never seen again.....
Read the rest of this article in the November 2007 issue of FATE
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