Disappearance of the CYCLOPS

Wasn't the wreck found by Dirk Pitt?

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Julian

Dirk finds everything, even Abe Lincoln's corpse on a Confederate ironclad in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

Modern research points to a mutiny on board...

Didn't he also find the lost treasures from the Alexandria Library in the Mexican desert too??

Mr. Manstein, did you have anything to do with this?  It smells of torpedoes and U-boats.  Rick.

I also believe her sister ship went missing not long after that also. I remember recently there was a prominent wreck diver/searcher ( somewhere in the Carolinas I think, I could be wrong) that passed away that had said he knew where the Cyclops was but took it to his grave, but the ship is supposedly several miles off the Carolinas coast. Could be bull but could of been torpedoed. I think she's going to turn up one of these days. Someone should cross reference uboat attacks with shipping around this time in that area from Barbados to Maryland USA.

The cool thing is that Clive Cussler uses proceeds from his books to finance real expedtions.

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The cool thing is that Clive Cussler uses proceeds from his books to finance real expedtions.

True enough, he was involved in the discovery of the CSS Hunley although there is a major dispute as to whom actually discovered her first. Supposedly,  an archaeologist named Spence discovered her in 1970,   25 years before Cussler's people. Cussler's people were allegedly using Spence's charts to locate the wreck. Spence's book was published in January, 1995 and NUMA divers found Hunley about six months later, just at the spot marked in the book.

An alternate theory for the disappearance is that the Cyclops was caught in a storm on or about March 10, 1918, and overwhelmed close to her destination of Norfolk. The gale was apparently much worse at sea than on land, where it passed virtually unnoticed as just another spring storm. In 1968 a US Navy diver searching for the missing USS Scorpion discovered a shipwreck about 70 miles east of Norfolk that he was unable to identify and that has not subsequently been relocated, but that he believes is the Cyclops after seeing photos of it for the first time.

And for the record, sister ships Proteus and Nereus disappeared in November and December 1941, respectively. Both were confirmed as U-boat casualties after the war.

I've long thought that would be a cool ship to model, but all of those derricks and catwalks and such, in 1/700, scares me.

If that's the case my mistake, I'm going from memory from over the last thirty or so years.

Pfffttttt ... I cheated and looked it up   My source was The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved. A good read for many of the alleged "mysteries" of The Triangle.

         Today, October 24th, marks the 30th anniversary of the complete disappearance of another vessel, the SS POET. Built at the Kaiser Shipbuilding Corp. yards at Richmond, CA in 1944, and named U.S.S. GENERAL OMAR BUNDY (AP 152), she served as a transport ship for the US Navy during World War II until decomissioned in 1949, when she was laid up at the James River Reserve Fleet.

         In 1964, the ship was delivered to the Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Baltimore, MD to be converted to a bulk carrier at the Sparrows Point Shipyard  and renamed PORTMAR. She transported steel products until sold to the Hawaiian Eugenia Corp. in 1979, and renamed again as the SS POET.

        On October 24,1980, the 522 foot, US flag vessel loaded with 13,500 tons of bulk corn from the Girard Point Terminal in South Philidelphia departed for Port Said, Egypt with a crew of 34. The ship disappeared en route and has never been heard from since. All attempts to locate the POET has proved futile.

   Perhaps, it was a rogue wave, or as mfsob thinks, a Burmuda Triangle Mystery. Nobody knows yet.

        Montani semper liberi !     Happy modeling to all and every one of you.

                                        Crackers