The Bermuda Triangle VANISHING of the USS Cyclops

In the 1918, prominent ship in the US military would up and vanish into what appears to be thin air. An extensive search would be launched to find it but no wreckage, debris, or lift rafts were ever located. Despite over 105 years of searching to this day, nothin has ever been located. So what happened to this ship? Well Bermuda triangle happened. But what exactly was that? Lets discuss in todays episode!
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[@RoanokeTales]

Thanks for watching guys! hope you enjoy! if you have a suggestion, drop it below!

[@ForTheFREEMAN]

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[@StephenStrangeX]

1990's Soldier on the Roanoke gaming channel. For this channel, the brown mountain lights is a good one. Wendigoon has done a video on it but I would enjoy hearing your take on it.

[@George.j.k]

The man from Taured and other multi realm stories, like to hear your spin on them!!! ❤

[@George.j.k]

And Sergei guy that time travel in time

[@bloodfarts5317]

I'd bet it's just Godzilla being a sussy backa.

[@arctrooperecho2654]

I remember Seeing this ship in a Scooby-Doo Movie

[@zonatedspore97acamas]

Which movie?

[@RoanokeTales]

That was one of the auto fills on google 😂

[@arctrooperecho2654]

@@zonatedspore97acamas it was The one with the ghost pirates

[@thethiccnessinspector7586]

That movie was fire

[@xBruceLee88x]

Zoinks, its the gay blade of... (different episode but still)

[@jaredthehawk3870]

Here's a couple pieces of information that you left out. At the time she was lost she was considered to be overloaded when she departed from Rio and she was also operating on a single engine as her starboard engine had a cracked cylinder as reported by her captain.

[@legionare117]

Not only was she seriously overloaded, she also didn't have her most capable officer in charge of loading the ore. He was confined to his quarters for the duration of the ships journey because he kept complaining about the safety issues with the ship.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

Oh. Well then, mystery solved.

[@marhawkman303]

@@legionare117 also... it probably WAS lost in a storm... just not a particularly interesting one.

[@KristenRowenPliske]

@@legionare117e was right to worry though he didn’t get a chance to gloat about it.

[@mharcsa]

And there were, supposedly, structural issues with the ship, she was not that well constructed.

[@deradler7571]

I worked on the sea for quite a number of years, some times we'd be thousands of miles from land. The ocean is massive. You would be surprised just how many of these big ships sink and or dissapear every single year. It's minimum one per week sometimes as high as 3 or 4. A lot of them crack in the middle due to the hulls being stressed under constant load and they are just swallowed whole and not a single trace of them is seen again.

[@RoanokeTales]

Horrifying

[@joannabaparileszczynska]

So, the ocean floors are riddled with boats, ships and planes?

[@deradler7571]

@@joannabaparileszczynska Probably not the ocean is huge, one a week sounds like a lot but compare that to say car accidents where there are probably hundres or thousands per day worldwide, there are also less being lost each year as technology gets better. There are more than 50,000 cargo ships crossing the ocean at one time and most of the losses are around Asia so we don't hear about them.

[@joannabaparileszczynska]

@@deradler7571 true but we don’t leave crashed cars on the roads. One ship a week will be 520 in a decade

[@MrTruehoustonian]

​@@joannabaparileszczynskadon't forget all them bodies that were in those planes, ships, boats ehhh😮

[@reecewestmoreland6137]

I think the issue with any theory is there's way to many unknowns with this case. For all we know the ship could have been overloaded, or there was a poorly timed munity that left the ship helpless in a sudden storm, she could done as SS Daniel J. Morrell did and broke in two and went down suddenly before anybody knew what was happen due a lack of flex in the steel of the ship , which was a common issue in earlier steel hulled ships

[@Bondrewd_The_Based]

I'm inclined to believe that she suffered a break in her structure and went down because of it. Her sister ships were used in similar manners, hauling ore when they, too, disappeared a bit after Cyclops vanished. Structural issues were definitively observed on one of those, so it's reasonable to conclude the other ships would've suffered the same flaws. On top of that, there was a storm reported in the area, and since she was already low in the water, it may have worsened any structural issues enough to the point that it could have caused her to go down.

[@richardwebb9532]

Somalian pirates hijacked it.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

Clearly it was a poorly timed mutiny that was devolved into a 2-3 way civil war between the spies and non spy rebel sailors along with the loyal sailors, which evolved into a war between the mermaids, the sailors and their factions and then the aliens as well, the ship then broke into two in the fighting which was made worse by methane and rogue waves. I think I covered it now.

[@Blisterdude123]

I think the real issue is that everybody looks for the 'perfect' explanation, everybody wants a satisfying story. Everybody wants there to be a big mystery, a bigger answer than that 306 men died because a ship sank at sea and that sort of thing happens a lot. Unfortunately life is unsatisfying and sometimes bad or unexpected things happen. Sometimes all the things you know shouldn't happen do. Sometimes there is no 'satisfying' narrative, no big puzzle. There was a storm, the ship was carrying a lot of weight, and it had engine problems.

[@hectorlumbagoCringe]

Well We know there’s nothing supernatural involved that’s for sure

[@Skylancer727]

The best explanation of the bermuda triangle is incredibly tame. Most people don't seem to realize it's actually one of the most active ship lanes in the entirety of the US. This of course means a far higher number of disappearances. Now that doesn't explain the aircraft, until you realize how big the airports are there too and the US military bases on the shore.

[@angelripper_420]

Yeah flight 19

[@MyzoryMaiq]

I heard it was SCP 0420

[@allster0crowly]

One of the best explanations I have heard is between magnetic interference from the surrounding, the reefs, the storms that often happen in the area, pirates, and ocean currents and Jetstream there are a lot of natural factors why things that disappear there are not found.

[@billpugh58]

@@angelripper_420 Primitive compasses, a simple mistake and running out of fuel. Apply KISS and you have the answer.

[@Quincy_Morris]

Correct. The Bermuda Triangle mythology arises from a misunderstand of statistics. It is a cool mythology though.

[@CaptainDilf357]

The Bermuda Triangle has always just given me the heebie-jeebies that stuff is mad odd I’ll stay on land thank you very much 😂😂 love ya Roanoke!!

[@RoanokeTales]

Same man! Went a cruise, has to go through, ewwwwww

[@bradymenting5120]

I like to believe that there is a comically large couch out there with all the missing ships and planes hidden behind it and among the cushions

[@mexicanwolverine517]

Liking the content on both channels. I've been watching your content for two years now. You always make the content entertaining, keep up the good work.

[@RoanokeTales]

Thank you for the compliment brother and for watching! :)

[@DerMeisterKreig]

Would not one of the better theories be a rogue wave? They tend to hit quickly and sink ships just as fast.

[@meltedicecreamsandwich]

Wouldn't you find cargo or debris then. There is literally nothing from the cyclops that was found

[@DerMeisterKreig]

@@meltedicecreamsandwich Some ships when they go down quickly, only leave a oil trail or little evidence. Look up the MV Derbyshire for that case.

[@coltclassic45]

Everyone knows this was a sacrifice to Cthulhu.

[@RoanokeTales]

Bingo

[@dubuyajay9964]

Wrong Ocean.

[@matthewparker5277]

​@@dubuyajay9964ok you can be the one to tell cthulhu that he can't go to the Atlantic, I'm definitely not doing it 😨☠️

[@ornu01]

I still remember the 'it was the bubbles!' answer. You should look into the Great Lakes disapearences, so many more boats and people vanished.

[@stephenolan5539]

The Atlantic is big enough that you can go around storms. Not so much in the Great Lakes.

[@tjroelsma]

@@stephenolan5539 Agreed, but some of the traditional shipping lanes in that area seem to be eerily close to some devastating reefs. And it is a region where storms can build very quickly, so a complacent crew might be surprised and unable to outrun/go around one.

[@tyrannosaurusimperator]

​@@stephenolan5539The lakes are big enough to develop severe ocean level storms and also small enough to develop those storms into even worse conditions.

[@stephenolan5539]

@@tyrannosaurusimperator And not big enough to go around the storm. The storm can cover the lake.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

You mentioned we have a better understanding/hypothesis of what is happening in the Bermuda Triangle. Any chance you will do a deep dive video on it specifically?

[@RoanokeTales]

That might be a really cool idea actually!

[@michaelgallagher3640]

It is no more deadly than any other shipping area....case closed.

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

@@michaelgallagher3640 That isn't very deep for a deep dive.

[@RamminRanch]

@@Blasted2Oblivionit’s true though. We know more about space than the ocean on our planet? Like. What.

[@litneyloxan]

Isnt it like some sort of gas making huge plumes of water in like columns that can take ships/planes down? Or bubbles of some sort of gas pressure from like cracks in the sea floor messing with things? I swear ive seen those explanations somewhere

[@RoanokeTales]

Thanks for watching guys! Stay out of the triangle!

[@MrTruehoustonian]

There is a Asian triangle I think it's called The Dragon Triangle can you do a story on that I know very little about that one but I'm so interested in all creepy mysterious shit

[@klaatubaradanikto6554]

You can draw a "triangle " anywhere in the worlds oceans and have dozens if not hundreds of mysterious disappearances. The oceans are HUGE and even in this day and age with GPS and satellites ships can "disappear". In other words the so called "Bermuda Triangle" is BS

[@whee38]

The thing about the Bermuda Triangle is that it's just so busy. This means that the normal rate of ship loss leads to an above average number of ships lost in the area. It's just busy, not supernatural

[@michaeldayman682]

Also - if you were to pick similarly arbitrary points equidistant from each other we would find a similar number of disappearances. So it is clearly the picking of equidistant points that is causing the disappearances.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yup, lots of ships means lots of chances for one to go missing. And even if a ship has issues, because it's so busy, the chance that no other ship is in range for aid is low.

[@spookshow6999]

People have reported strange happenings in planes over it.

[@tyrannosaurusimperator]

You say that, but do you have any actual statistics, such as the disappearance rate per 100,000 vessels or something similar, compared to similarly busy shipping lanes across the world?

[@drakron]

@@HappyBeezerStudios Well you can look at wikipedia and see the last major loss was El Faro and we know what happened to that ship and that was 2015, same year 2 boys disappeared but the boat they were on was found. The number is not that large considering the traffic and been on decline as communications and search have improved, what is ignored is the number of calls the Coast Guard answered 8,000 distress calls in the area in 2016 yet no major disappearances, there is no mystery ... its just statistics. In fact take Cotopaxi, it was found 95 years later.

[@Valentine011]

I think the simplest and most obvious answer is probably the saddest: they misreported their location. So this huge search turned up nothing because the wreckage was never there. Something similar happened with Amelia Earhart, which is why her wreckage also remains undiscovered (or at least unconfirmed, its believed she has been found but thats not certain just yet or maybe ever.) Like, for comparison, the Titanic sank 4 years prior to the Cyclops, and its location was well recorded when it sank, and it took us more than half a century to actually get eyes on it. A ship vanishing in a vague area, especially if its navigation was off and it was in the WRONG area, would be untraceable.

[@Blisterdude123]

I think something else people for some reason simply fail, or refuse to consider is like...the sea is absolutely f ucking enormous, and between currents, winds, storms...everything in it m o v e s. Unless you are able to scramble a response/rescue/search in double-quick time, there is absolutely no reason TODAY even you should expect to find something in the exact location it was reported, that's why beacons and such are so important. Now apply that to missing ships, planes, vessels over a century ago. You're talking periods of days, weeks, months before effective searches could take placed, based on maps and shaky coordinates, looking for a needle in a haystack where the needle has like MOVED days or weeks before you arrived.

[@Violator2603]

When my grandfather was in the Marines in the 70’s he told me they ran drills outta Florida and when they passed through the triangle they were always at high alert he’d been stationed all over the world he joined in the 50’s during the Korean War but said the waters around the triangle were the strangest he’d ever experienced

[@justinwalker4475]

in what way?

[@dubuyajay9964]

​@@justinwalker4475^

[@Blisterdude123]

And this kind of nonsense is how urban legends, modern folklore, myths and legends get perpetuated. "My grandad said..."

[@Skylerrelyks93]

@@Blisterdude123listen to your Grand papi

[@thedon9670]

​@@Blisterdude123exactly. His grand father was acting on the myths he had heard about so was already expecting something strange to happen.

[@undeadgentalmen]

LOL No kidding. The triangles are scattered across the earth. I live near the town North Pole, Alaska and there is an old bomber plane that crashed in the river that was returning from either old Russian recon, when Midway was attack or the return trip from the attack on Japan. I can't recall correctly. However the strangest thing is I have hiked across this wreckage and sometimes it's there, then next time I come around it's gone. Disappearing and returning. I swear I felt lost or going in circles in the woods just outside of a jolly tourist town. Got markers set up and when it does act up and I book it back to town around people and have a meal to make sure I'm in reality and not some lucid waking dream. I'm a skeptic but alot of weird shit happens in my life. LOL 😅

[@thatplant]

yeah, the deep sea is a nope for me...even going out into deep lakes makes me feel nervous. Thanks for the vid roanoke!

[@roflchiefmcjoflchief1791]

You forgot the most important detail. The main character in Sinking City was aboard the Cyclops when it vanished and somehow survived and came back with sluething abilities.

[@IkeanCrusader1013]

Hey roanoke, one of the engines was out due to a cracked cylinder and the ship was reported to be overloaded on departure. One of the ship's more competent officers was actually confined to his quarters for repeatedly voicing concerns about safety too

[@williamking256]

I was doing research on these ships for a story actually! haha. USS Proteus and USS Cyclops. I still think the whole thing with the USS Jason splitting in half in open water on calm seas really gave credence to the corrosion theory.

[@rogue_asami4522]

I love how they managed to incorporate it with Dagon in the backstory for the main character of The Sinking City. His boat used in game is even named the Cyclops II.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

I have a pretty simple theory: We're looking for the Cyclops in the wrong places. This happened with the Titanic, we looked for it around its last known location and couldn't find it. Turns out, the Officers on the Titanic had miscalculated their position. My theory is that the Cyclops lost her ability to communicate and her last engine blew, leaving her adrift.

[@kelteckin]

Just what I wanted to hear today . They found out what happened to the cyclops it involved barn owls and swamp gas.

[@RoanokeTales]

Of course! Nothing more to see here 😂

[@thesepticbossalduin8859]

While I can't really give any guesses or theories to what happened to the ship, if it did sink in or near areas searched, it isn't always easy to find a sunken ship with radar and other tools. And even if on the surface you can still miss it. Look at scouting searches with planes during world war 2 in the Atlantic and Pacific. Sometimes scouting planes flew past the enemy forces and never saw them or just barely missed being able to see them. Sometimes you just miss it because of how vast the ocean is

[@shannonrhoads7099]

I love the temporal portal 'theory' myself. Just imagine if the Cyclops were to suddenly reappear on course and at spead, just as if nothing had happened to it.

[@peterm1826]

😏

[@rogwarrior1018]

That would be an X File

[@shannonrhoads7099]

@@rogwarrior1018Mulder isn't wrong - the truth IS out there. (Plays X-Files theme....)

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

I just watched the miniseries The Triangle, and in that they show the wreck of the ship, and that series is extremely eerie but interesting at the same time!

[@RenzDavis]

I usually wait until my night shift starts before binging 'Gaming and Tales' But how can I resist !

[@tdeweesebeats]

I recently discovered I had a relative who was on this ship when it disappeared. Helios name was Gordon Deweese and I think he was about 19 at the time. Very interesting and great video. Was curious about this event.

[@egcowling9657]

Pics or it didn't happen

[@thecreepynightshiftguy]

Finally! A video on the Cyclops that doesn't perpetuate the myth that it was a Proteus class collier! You've got to be the only one out there that didn't just read the Wikipedia article and just take it's dodgy info at face value. Thank you. Great video by the way.

[@jakobwilliamzachariassen2640]

if i recall, didn't some people like check and find out that the triangle just has an average amount of ship and plane dissapearances? like, it happens, but at about the same rate as everywhere else

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

Yeah. It's a big area that a lot of ships go through.

[@jeffreyskoritowski4114]

Lloyds of London did 2 separate surveys and determined that there was nothing unusual about the area. Lloyds is the largest and oldest insurer in the world and maritime insurance is the largest part of their business. If they say that theres nothing abnormal going on I'm inclined to believe them. [Typo correction]

[@Vaw.]

A piece of information I noticed was missing was that in 2006 a British cruiser, the HMS Odysseus (I know right) discovered part of a ship hull that matched roughly to a part of the Cyclops’ lower decks that housed grain cargo. There they found part of the crew-34 bodies in total- and in the center scratched into the deck was the single letter “R”. For more info you can look up “Cyclops-Odysseus R-34”

[@peacevic]

That's actually pretty funny.

[@diobrando5976]

Nice

[@Jossikun]

👀🤭

[@charlesfuzak]

Nope. Not gonna do that.

[@AndrossUT]

Wow Ulysses impaled the Cyclops right in the ass

[@colinayre2109]

Another video narrated by silky smooth sarcasm and dry, well thought out humor…what a great day! I love papa Roanoke upload days

[@ThePessimisticTech-Priest]

I've always leaned towards the notion that it sank more so than a mutiny or pirating. The methane burp being the strongest contender for that in my book. That being said, in regards to where the wreck is, I heard a theory almost 20 years ago that stuck with me as it seemed at least reasonable. Essentially, similar to how a large vessel can be pushed around on the surface by wind, the same can happen with the large currents that circulate the world's oceans. As such, after the vessel went down, the underwater currents slowly but steadily caused the ship to move along the bottom until it was well outside the search area. This could be applied to quite a number of the missing vessels and planes. As to where the current spit it out, no idea. Could be a few dozen miles, could be a few hundred miles. We'll most likely never know as even if the wreck were discovered today, time, currents, the scraping along the ocean floor, etc., will have utterly ruined the wreck basically turning it into a scrap pile. As example, there are WWII wrecks that we can't properly identify due to the identifying marks being stripped away or covered by sea life. Chances are there is probably an entire scrap yard of ships and planes somewhere outside the triangle where the currents are slow enough or change direction enough to dump everything that sank in the region of the triangle. On a sidenote, I also believe the currents moving wrecks is also why we haven't found MH370. That or the aliens did it because aliens are just assholes like that.

[@beefcake7416]

Hi Roanoke! Ive been watching both channels, love the content. I would like to make a suggestion for the next topic: Devils Tower in Wyoming. Its actuslly the first ever national monument, and has some cool legends and sucj behind it.

[@alistairclarke6726]

I've read that when an engineer was checking 'I' beams in the hold on a sister ship when it was in dry dock. He accidentally dropped his hammer and it fell clean through the bottom of the hull. This lead to speculation that all those years of carrying coal had worn the metal very thin and at some point during its last voyage the bottom just fell out of the ship.

[@2ndTooth]

But the ship was only 8 years old when it disappeared, that's pretty new in boat years. How long after the cyclops disappeared did the engineer inspect the sister ship?

[@alistairclarke6726]

@@2ndTooth . However, the best evidence for the “design flaw” theory stems from the fate of two of her three sister ships. USS Proteus (AC-9) served without incident as a collier in the U.S. Navy until decommissioned in 1924. Proteus was sold to a Canadian company in 1941, whereupon sometime after 23 November 1941 she and her crew of 58 and a cargo of bauxite ore vanished without a trace in, where else, the Bermuda Triangle. USS Nereus (AC-10) also served as a collier until being decommissioned in 1922. Sold to a Canadian aluminum company in early 1941, she too vanished in the Bermuda Triangle with her entire crew and a cargo of bauxite ore sometime after 10 December 1941. Neither loss was the result of German submarines, so either the Bermuda Triangle aliens had it in for that class of ship, or there was something wrong with design of the ship when carrying ore, which was more dense than coal. A theory advanced by U.S. Navy Admiral George van Deurs (an early U.S. naval aviator), was that the acidic coal cargo could over time seriously erode the longitudinal support beams making them more likely to break under stress. A combination of weakened structures, dense ore, and heavy seas would be the most likely cause for the losses. Makes more sense to me than methane or aliens.

[@2ndTooth]

@@alistairclarke6726 definitely makes more sense now. The bauxite and ship design were a deadly combination it seems.

[@emeraldqueen1994]

THEROY : what if the ship, for some reason, was sent adrift and sank many miles from where people were searching for it & the debris was simply not seen by searches because it didn’t make it far enough away from the ship?

[@MaceGaming53]

I think the methane patch is the most plosable thing that hapoened. Since the ship was overloaded , had structural issues , and one engine, it was setup to fail

[@LowdenFTW]

What if your great aunt and uncle returned one day and didn’t age 😳

[@RoanokeTales]

That would be horrifying

[@thetheatredoc7785]

@@RoanokeTales But what a video!

[@StephenStrangeX]

I was literally thinking about this yesterday lmfao. Also on Roanoke gaming, when are you gonna do 1990's Soldier, the greatest movie of all time?

[@elburropeligroso4689]

Kurt Russell never disappoints...

[@StephenStrangeX]

@@elburropeligroso4689 agreed

[@Aserbic]

Huh. Didn't know about USS Cyclops. USS Eldridge though...

[@johnjay7255]

I enjoy your narration style ...like you're just hanging out and telling stories

[@jamesknapp64]

The rate of missing ships in the Bermuda triangle isnt even the highest in world. The Anartic waters between Argentina and Anartica have much higher wreck rates. Burmuda Triangle is one of the biggest waters in the world thus you get lots of wrecks and since those are hard to find thus leads to mystery stories

[@KibuFox]

There is also some evidence that Cyclops was sunk by a German submarine. Records are spotty at best, with it often being said that post war records show no U boats operating in the area at the time. However, it is also known that a number of U boat wrecks from WW1 have been found in the area, and it's believed that one sank the Cyclops, and in turn was itself sunk before it could return back to confirm its kill. Not related to the sinking, but an interesting bit of history involves Cyclops' sister ship. USS Jupiter. Jupiter was rebuilt into the United States' first carrier, USS Langley.

[@thetacticalpuertorican]

When flying from Puerto to Florida when I was a kid, I'd used to get so scared because we'd fly over the Bermuda Triangle every single time. 😅

[@aftershock1445]

Cool fact about the uss Cyclops, it has a sister ship called the uss Langley which was converted into an aircraft carrier

[@TobiWanKenob1]

You should watch The Final Countdown. It's basically that ship goes back in time theory.

[@jangleleg117]

Thanks brother, sitting here in South Africa, feeling way too isolated. I kind of need an American voice to listen to occasionally lol. But you are more than that. You're a damn good story teller and the most well spoken KZbinr I listen to, that's for sure.

[@greengoblin876]

Hes British.... Soz lol

[@Ragmarock.no117]

One of my favorite depictions of the Bermuda Triangle and the Cyclops is in the Video game "Dark Void". Getting to fight aliens vertically on the deck using a jetpack... maybe just nostalga, but a certified classic in my book

[@joecrazy9896]

Heck yeah, boat mystery. This story, and the disappearance of the SS Pacific always interest me.

[@MrMysterious101]

I enjoy folklore so much that if I were to rank it, it would be equal to history and science as my favorite subjects.

[@RoanokeTales]

Glad you're enjoying these then man!

[@MrMysterious101]

@RoanokeTales thanks I hope you continue making this master pieces.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

Mythology and folklore are two of my favorite parts of history. It's interesting seeing how people before the Modern Era tried to rationalize and make sense of stuff they couldn't understand or explain.

[@michaelmeux4137]

Just found this channel's great videos. I really like your other channel and started rewatching those. Thanks for what you do brother

[@Cobra1098]

Never forget the sailor Charles Reed, sole survivor of the USS Cyclops. Reed later went on to become a private detective and led a noteworthy investigation of the city of Oakmont, which was beset by a strange flood and unreliable reports of paranormal activity. Reed's whereabouts at the conclusion of the investigation remain undetermined, as well as the rowboat he often used, the "Cyclops II" (named in honor of the USS Cyclops). Gone but not forgotten.

[@VonDoogan]

I love that there's a context box about the bermuda triangle, but it basically just says " I don't know, things go missing, no one knows", the context box tries to debunk conspiracies, but this one just agrees

[@David25512]

Oh man, ift the P51 lost flight you mentioned is the one that popped up suddenly in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, DU ET! As always, great stuff!

[@blackbearactual3932]

Just subscribed. Been listening to you for 2 days and holy shit dude 😂 the overlanding 4Runner idea, staying strapped, avoiding politics but still putting your 2 cents out there? You're a cool dude haha I'm a fellow GA boy, we need to have a cigar sometime 🤘🏻

[@radlybayilcoxway7905]

I remember a game back in the day called 'Dark Void' that played on the Bermuda Triangle being a portal to an alien world, and at some point you actually go to the USS Cyclops to salvage its communications equipment.

[@gerardskippon3099]

With Rogue Waves, as you said not much was known. Two bits that show what these beasts are capable of, The SS Breme n a cargo vessel that disappeared, some wreckage found including one lifeboat it's Davit showed serious damage but the boat was secured 60feet above sea level. But the incident that made people sit up and beg was New Years Day 1996, in the North Sea the Draupner Oil Rig, in the middle of a Big Storm out of the murk loomed this monster with just passed, not by a lot, under Rig's Decking. Thank you for your Channel, enjoying it very much. Thanks again. TTFN.

[@filmandfirearms]

HMS Olympic was also struck by a rogue wave during WW1, and barely survived

[@gerardskippon3099]

Nice recall, I'd forgotten about that. These things are bloody scary.

[@thatchoirguy4939]

I absolutely love your videos, I wish you could have been my teacher when i was still in school you make stuff so interesting

[@navelaviator18]

There was a malfunction of some kind... something that prevented an S.O.S. call to be made. Dead in the water, it drifted off course outside of the search radius which would explain no debris. Once outside of the search area, it sank killing everyone immediately or eventually. There was debris after it sank but it was outside of the search area.

[@GeneralLee.1969]

Actually two of her sisters also dissapeared both in 1941, the Proteus also dissapeared in the Bermuda Triangle, and Nereus dissapeared off the east coast, only one ship of the class lived a pretty interesting life. The Jupiter was renamed USS Langley in the 20s, and she became the first American aircraft carrier. When WWII started, USS Langley was turned into a aircraft transport, and in 1942 she was attacked near the coast of Australia and sank

[@GusingtonOne]

Stories of giant ships like the Cyclops just going missing are super creepy. Great video.

[@topcat59]

I still find it incredibly strange that a ship and it’s cardigan can just disappear without any traces, it really does makes me wonder if ships do disappear at that location in current year.🤔🐱

[@ShadowJack4488]

No, they strangely do not go missing THAT MUCH anymore. Probably satellite phones helped loll

[@ShadowJack4488]

@druidofscosglen2868 how did I forget about that? Every inch of surface is photographed. I tried googling most recent Bermuda Triangle disappearance, couldn’t even find much.. :/

[@ShadowJack4488]

@druidofscosglen2868 maybe that’s a really good thing tho lol probably means nothings gone missing in a while

[@bombvoyage5686]

The entire class of ships was cursed. Cyclops got lost and sunk Proteus was also lost at sea, Nereus was lost at sea as well while Jupiter was converted into the first USN Aircraft Carrier but was converted then into a seaplane tender then finally lost to a Japanese air attack

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

Aww yeah, dude! I love Bermuda Triangle stories, the Cyclops' especially. I actually wrote a paper on Bermuda disappearances in middle-school.

[@johnniewoodard648]

I enjoy your content, and the research that goes into the production. But, do you have to include the static and visual distortions? It makes reading or trying to study the detail on the static photos difficult.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

The Cyclops might have been broken in half due to a weak (non stiff enough) low grade quality steel mid section, just remember the great lakes disasters (like Edmond Fitzgerald) with very similar cargo vessels! They all broke in half during heavy weather and storm.

[@TheDiloEmpire]

We actually don't know the specifics of what happened to the Fitzgerald although we know for a fact that it did not just break up on the surface, although that was a somewhat common issue for them, two famous examples being the Carl D Bradley or the Daniel j morell

[@Schlipperschlopper]

yes@@TheDiloEmpire

[@novaboy1174]

The doomed submersible recently was named Cyclops II before it changed its name to Titan... coincidence?😅

[@whyjnot420]

Little tidbit of info: The time when this ship was around was when first rate navies were shifting to oil. At this time, coal, oil and actually a combo of the two were all prevalent. For ships that would need to be fueled by the Brits (or at least in the UK), such as a transport bringing stuff to them or warships joining up with the Royal Navy, being coal fired was beneficial. Simply put the Brits had a crazy amount of coal, oil not so much. I can't say I know of any ships that the Brits refused to fuel. Though I have seen it in preference and understanding (as in understanding that coal wasn't as critical and this helping to inform what ships are then sent). Such as with USS Texas. Her being coal fired meant that she wasn't chugging down the oil the RN needed for her own battleships. (and battleships are thirsty gals) addendum: The combo was oil sprayed into a coal fired boiler. Better than just coal, not as good as just oil. Not really something that lasted once coal was phased out of use. I won't say its gone, I mean people still use coal for some boats, so maybe some people still use such a contraption, but as far as big ships go, this was something of a stopgap during those years when they still had a ton of ships that were perfectly serviceable otherwise but were lacking in the power department. Adding an oil spray to a coal boiler is a lot cheaper and faster than putting new oil fired boilers into a ship.

[@d1bhtxza]

I went to sea in the Navy for over 20 years, and I’m familiar with and have sailed through the “Bermuda Triangle” many times. The “mystery” behind it is not much of a mystery. It’s a high traffic area with ships and aircraft experiencing catastrophic maritime and aviation accidents before the advent of modern safety equipment……satellite communications and EPIRB beacons etc. It’s why the the Bermuda Triangle isn’t much of a “thing” anymore…….when ships are in trouble now adays, they are in constant real time communication until they either get help or sink. The Cyclops was sailing in 1918. She more than likely had a catastrophic maritime accident and sank with no survivors…..or if some men survived, they drifted away. People fail to realize just how big the ocean is, and with poor or no air assets in 1918 to conduct a search, the men were never found. The crew of 350+ men didn’t mutiny either…..the US Navy has never fully lost control of a ship to mutiny. Also, due to the size of the Cyclops and it’s unique roll as a Navy collier, had the crew sailed it off to a foreign port…..it would have been noticed. Ships have a long service life……so for 30 years after the crew “mutinied” the ship sailed around unnoticed under new registration and a new owner…..nope. Then there’s the “deathbed confession” test. Not a single living person ever turned up saying they were a Cyclops “mutineer”. You have a huge crew…..no letters home? Nobody showing up for family funerals…weddings…Christmas in 1929….anything? And nobody whose last dying deathbed confession was “I was on the USS Cyclops and we took over the ship and sailed it to a foreign port…..sold it and it’s cargo to a guy name Jose……then shut up about the untrue thing for the last 70 years”……..nope……they all died within a day or so of her last transmission in a maritime accident that sank the ship.

[@wesrrowlands8309]

I'm a fan of the theory of rogue waves and methane leaks for taking out planes and ships. The methane could explain why pilots see weird things when flying over too. They've said there's alot of German sounding names on the ship so maybe they wanted to go fight in the trenches or get to Poland a little ahead of the game. They've also proven that planes with propellers will lose the engines in high methane too so they could just drop out of the sky.

[@kommandantgalileo]

fun fact: her sister ship was USS Jupiter, later renamed USS Langley the very first aircraft carrier of the USN.

[@alexstan414]

Hey look, new Roanoke! Just what I needed! 😄

[@mitchelltravis1187]

I was on wipeout in 2020 & they do a thing where they aerate the water under big falls so you don't impact the surface & hurt yourself. They do this with a bunch of bubbles that just interrupt the surface tension etc., low tech. I fell off the obstacle (imagine that! Lol) and went into the drink. My momentum carried me all the way down, 8-10 feet deep I think, and I bumped the bottom pretty good. I'm not a small guy at 6'230 - but it was weird! Not only do humans actually float pretty well (just below the surface ironically) but I had a life vest and wet-suit on and it felt like I just 'fell through' the water. The "methan gas" always seemed weird before that, but adter my experience I could easily see a situation where rough waters kicked up a bunch of gas, "broke" the water and "giant metal boat" became a "Giant metal submarine".

[@dubuyajay9964]

You ok?

[@mitchelltravis1187]

@@dubuyajay9964 yeah I'm good lol

[@stevemezzapeso4024]

The cyclops also had 2 sister ships that also disappeared in 1941 along the same route as the cyclops sailed back in 1918

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Never forget that the area of the Bermuda Triangle is one of the densest shipping area in the world. All ships that go between the gulf on one side and europe and the indian ocean on the other side goes through there. Statistically the area has a very low ratio of lost ships and planes. Simply because there are so many.

[@enlightenerofcryptozoology8761]

Another lesson this highlights is one I remember a taxi driver in Hawaii said when a volcanic eruption happened that the town covered in ash and as he described trying to drive out it a hell on earth. He said “Mother Nature doesn’t have to live with you. YOU have to live with Mother Nature.”

[@kenxiong6830]

Thanks again Roanoke!!!

[@that6.7guy30]

absolutely talk about the planes that encountered the methane, I loved the Mythbusters episode about it.

[@derekbortree5903]

I was on a cruise to Bermuda years back (Norwegian Breakaway) we were scheduled to have trip to sail into the triangle but a monster storm came in and we never ended up leaving port. part of me feels it was a sign

[@BlacksburgEV]

Really loved this video and interesting change in content yet staying well within the pocket of what I expect from this channel. Bravo, I would definetly watch more videos in this vein! Mahalo

[@ShadowJack4488]

Jerry freeman also has a badass story that you might be interested in, I’ve just now heard of that one today. He camped out for a week inside Area 51 😂Happened a while ago tho.

[@RoanokeTales]

ouuhhhh that sounds interesting!

[@cyberrite3338]

Would love to see a video on the story of Skinwalker Ranch. love the vids!!

[@jenniferk.7023]

I have a relative/ancestor who went missing on the USS Cyclops. He was a part of the crew, a Yeoman named Jesse Samuel Hanlin from Atlanta, Ga. He was a cousin to my mother, though I'm not sure if he was once removed or not. That whole thing confuses me. Jesse was only 23. I have some of his things that he left behind with his mother, Alice Fitzgerald Hanlin. That's where my mother got her middle name, Alice. Before he left. The story is that his mother had begged him not to go because she had a bad feeling. She told Jesse that if he went, she would never speak to him again. It utterly destroyed her when the ship went missing. I think about this sometimes, and it's just so sad. Alice Fitzgerald Hanlin died in 1960 at the age of 86, never knowing what had happened to her only child. It's most likely that the ship was sunk by a German submarine. #WW1

[@duckman12569]

I was big into the triangle when I was younger. When I got older, the only thing that changed was the triangle now looks back with a single eye.

[@duckman12569]

And it's DEFINITELY a portal.

[@oatlord]

"Sir. Something weird is messing with our compass. Which direction should we go? " "Down."

[@bertbaker7067]

I think it probably just sank very fast. Either capsized from the free surface effect effecting the ore, or waves crashing over the deck into the cargo holds until the weight overwhelmed its bouency.

[@hanschow5457]

Thank you for creating this video and sharing it with the community. It was very educational 🙏

[@CountMeOut33]

The vintage photos are great find 🤙🏽

[@ewanwheeler3498]

Ohh hell yeah I love the true horror ect but this is what I love proper! It’s always a great day when broanoake uploads, and even better when swolonoake takes releases I’m still reeling from attack the block which I never would of expected (I’m uk) MUCH LOVE

[@cheezekeke3951]

Back in my junior year, I studied the cyclops for no reason other than an interest. It was my first achievement in the subject of navy ship history.

[@majormetcalf1225]

I’m starting to like these videos more because you stay on topic and focused far more than the movie or video game related ones. where you fall into tangents so often it becomes distracting.

[@fenrislegacy]

I have a great uncle who disappeared on the same route as the USS Cyclops, he was on the USS Nereus. Likely sunk by a German or Italian U-boat.

[@Kansas_Gamer1998]

Talk about the USS Scorpion next.

[@deepseastonecore3017]

Courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten

[@gamergirl209]

As someone who could have died due to methane exposure on a Midwestern farm, gases are terrifying.

[@dubuyajay9964]

You ok?

[@One-Crazy-Cat]

There has been no more frequency of incidents in the triangle than anywhere else when adjusted for the high volume of traffic as it’s one the most highly used routes.

[@elainemoreland3908]

Interesting video. My favorite topic. Please do a video about the planes that went missing. Thank you.

[@charlesbecker4632]

I think that the crew sold the cargo and the ship, split the money, and went into hiding to avoid the War

[@icehockeylover189]

Rogue waves, are exactly why I will never go on a cruise. They can engulf a ship with such speed, that you essentially have zero time to react. I have no desire to live out The Poseidon Adventure.