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USS Cyclops (AC-4) was the second of four Proteus-class colliers built for the United States Navy several years before World War I. [ citation needed ] Named after the Cyclops , a race of giants from Greek mythology , she was the second U.S. naval vessel to bear the name.
[3] Tragedy struck the family when his father and the rest of the crew of the USS Cyclops disappeared during World War I. [4] The loss of the ship and 306 crew and passengers without a trace sometime after March 4, 1918, remains the single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly involving combat. The cause of the ship's loss is ...
The USS Arizona Memorial, at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed on USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and commemorates the events of that day.
Davy Jones' locker is a metaphor for the oceanic abyss, the final resting place of drowned sailors and travellers. It is a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks in which the sailors' and ships' remains are consigned to the depths of the ocean (to be sent to Davy Jones' Locker ).
1800: USS Pickering, on course from Guadeloupe to Delaware, lost with 91 people on board. [15] (Possibly lost in a gale) 1814: USS Wasp, last known position was the Caribbean, lost with 140 people on board. [15] (Possibly lost in a storm) 1824: USS Wild Cat, on course from Cuba to Tompkins Island, lost with 14 people on board. [15] (Lost in a ...
In 1978 adventure novelist Clive Cussler funded and participated in an attempt to find John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary warship, the USS Bonhomme Richard.The expedition was not successful; however, it eventually led to the formation of a nonprofit organization named after the fictional agency in his novels, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, and dedicated to the discovery of ...
America being converted to USS West Point in Norfolk. The carrier USS Hornet can be seen behind her. America was moored at Norfolk, Virginia, and acquired by the Navy on 1 June 1941 to be used as a troop transport. [4] The ship was renamed the USS West Point (AP-23), [4] the second U.S. Navy ship of the name.
Marco Polo was a cargo ship built under a US Maritime Commission contract (as MC hull 1356), by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, North Carolina.. The ship was renamed Mount Hood on 10 November 1943; launched on 28 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs. A. J. Reynolds; acquired by the Navy on loan-charter basis on 28 January 1944; converted by the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co ...