Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1925-04-19 | Page 33 | 1,000 U.S. Navy Men Are Lost

1000 u US t NAVY MEN ARE LOST I Mystery of Missing War War- Warships Warships ships Has Never Been Solved Solves Solve l WASHINGTON April 18 CM 18 OP More Jore than 1000 American naval men have gone down to watery graves gravu In a score of vessels vesel ls that hare hae disappeared from the face tace of the earth without a 0 a trace From the brig Reprisal lost loot In Septem Septem- September September ber bel 1777 to the tug IUT Conestoga that disappeared In the Pacific In 19 1921 1 there Is a II chapter of ot naval history on which the navy depart depart- department department department ment Is able to throw but littlelight little littlelight littlelight light CYCLOPS MYSTERY Outstanding among the unac unac- unaccounted unac- unac unaccounted unaccounted counted for tor craft In modern days daye Is the naval collier Cyclops con con- concerning concerning concerning which there thre Is II Is a II maze mass of fanciful theory but no official fact fact During a n wide stretch of from the Civil war period to nearlY the tho world war era naval annals are arc devoid of entries concerning lost ships Three have hue vanished from the lIea since the beginning of the present century however itt In spite of ot the much vaunted safe safe- safety safety safety I ty to be found In modern apparatus apparatus atus of ot communication Many ot of the tho lost ships were last heard of ofIn ofIn ofIn In the vicinity of ot the West Vest Indies L LIST ST OF or Io LOST T S SHIPS IP Tile The department Sac nas linea vessels as missing without a trace and abandoned hope bope for their re- re recovery recovery re recovery covery Reprisal lost loet September 17 1777 7 General Gates 1777 Saratoga 1781 Insurgent 1800 pickering 1800 Hamilton 1813 Wasp asp III 1814 1815 Lynx 1821 Wildcat 1823 1829 Hornet 18 1829 29 Sylph ii 1839 Sea Sell Gull 1839 1843 Jefferson 18 1850 1810 O Albany r with men 1854 Levant II 11 with 10 men 1860 tug tUI Nina sailed from Norfolk and never heard from 1910 collier coUler Cyclops with persons persona comprising 15 officers men and ad 67 57 gors sailed March 4 1919 from rom Barbadoes West est Indies and tUg Conestoga with four tour officers and 63 52 men from Mar Mare Island bland Ca Cal tor for Pearl Harbor Hawaii 1921 1911 NEVER NEVEn I Naval vessels have searched the theseas theseas theseas seas for tor tidings of o these missing I craft but their fate tate remains a 1 mys mys- mys- mys mystery mystery mystery I tery Naval officers consider the I case calle of the Cyclops unusually pus pus- puzzling sling for tor she he was equipped with ra radio lo and apparently no storms her captain last report report- reportIng reporting ing all well welt and fair fall weather She was wall feet teet long 65 5 feet beam beamand and of tons Theories ex cx exist let 1st that hat the Cyclops was Will Improperly improperly Improperly erly loaded and split In two that her machinery was disabled and her radio put out of commissIon and that she was Will scuttled and that an enem enemy submarine destroyed h bor r but official Information regarding her Is wholly lacking