One hundred years ago Wednesday morning, the USS Cyclops, a massive American World War I transport ship hailed as a “floating coal mine,” should have been docked in the waters off Baltimore, fresh off ...

One hundred years ago Wednesday morning, the USS Cyclops, a massive American World War I transport ship hailed as a "floating coal mine," should have been docked in the waters off Baltimore, fresh off ...

One hundred years ago Wednesday morning, the USS Cyclops, a massive American World War I transport ship hailed as a “floating coal mine,” should have been docked in the waters off Baltimore, fresh off ...

The last anyone heard of the Cyclops as it steamed in a voyage that began in Bahia, Brazil, on Feb. 22, 1918, en route to Baltimore with 10,000 tons of manganese ore in its bunkers, was in a telegram ...

The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 with the loss of more than 1,500 lives has long captivated experts and amateurs alike. This week's disappearance of a submarine carrying five people including ...

There should have been a clue: a distress call on the radio, a shard of wooden lifeboat, even a sailor’s cap. How could 309 men and their ship, a naval vessel bigger than a football field, just vanish ...

One of the greatest unsolved naval mysteries of the 20th century involved the disappearance of the USS Cyclops in March 1918. On board were several Southern California seamen, including Henry M. Davis ...

Marvin Barrash, of Kent Island, Md., spent years researching the story of the lost USS Cyclops. Here, he shows photos of the missing ship. (Tim Prudente/Baltimore Sun) As an addendum to the March 16 ...