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USS Cyclops

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Mexican Service Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Transport Clasp)
Proteus Class Collier:
  • Laid down, date unknown, at William Cramp and Sons at Philadelphia, PA.
  • Launched, 7 May 1910
  • Placed in service as Navy Auxiliary Service Collier Cyclops, 7 November 1910, G. W Worley, Master, Navy Auxiliary Service, in charge
  • Commissioned USS Cyclops, 1 May 1917, LCDR. G. W. Worley in command
  • Disappeared with all hands in early March 1918
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 19,360 t.
    Length 522'
    Beam 63'
    Draft 27' 8"
    Speed 16 kts.
    Complement 236
    Armament four 4" guns
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Cyclops 63k USS Cyclops photographed by the New York Navy Yard, probably while anchored in the Hudson River, NY, 3 October 1911.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-13451, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the U.S. National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Cyclops 69k USS Cyclops, anchored in the Hudson River, off New York City, 3 October 1911. Photograph was taken by the New York Navy Yard.
    US Navy photo # NH 55549    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Cyclops 121k USS Cyclops, anchored in the Hudson River, off New York City, probably during the 1911 naval review in New York City.
    Library of Congress, LC-B2- 2335-8     		Mike Green
    Cyclops 71k USS Cyclops photographed by Sargent, circa 1913. Copied from the album of Francis Sargent, courtesy of Commander John Condon, 1986.
    US Naval photo # NH 101063    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Cyclops 72k USS Cyclops and USS South Carolina (Battleship No. 26) engaged in an experimental coaling while under way at sea in 1914. Rigging between the two ships was used to transfer two 800-pound bags of coal one at a time. The bags were landed on a platform in front of the battleship's forward 12-inch gun turret, and then carried to the bunkers. The donor, who served as a seaman in South Carolina at the time, comments: "it showed that this was possible but a very slow method of refueling. Nothing was heard of the test afterwards."
    US Navy photo # NH 76012 donated by Earle F. Brookins, Jamestown, NY, 1972.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Cyclops 32k USS Cyclops underway, date and location unknown.
    Photo courtesy Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center    		 Colin P. Varga Photography Curator PAHRC
    Cyclops 43k USS Cyclops underway, date and location unknown.
    Photo source "Jane's Fighting Ships 1914"    		 Robert Hurst
    USS Cyclops
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Passport to Oblivion: The Disappearance of USS Cyclops
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