Midnight Terror

The USS Cyclops: The Ship That Vanished Without a Trace

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In March 1918 the USS Cyclops steamed out of Barbados with 306 souls and ten thousand tons of manganese ore — and simply never arrived. No distress call, no wreckage, no bodies: the largest non-combat loss of life in US naval history, and a silence the sea has kept for more than a century.