The USS Cyclops: The Navy Collier That Vanished with 306 Aboard
About 5 min readOn 4 March 1918 the USS Cyclops left Barbados for Baltimore with 306 crew and passengers and 10,800 tons of manganese ore. She was due on 13 March. She never arrived — no distress call, no wreckage, no survivors. It remains the largest non-combat loss of life in US Navy history.