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๐๏ธ 30 July 2018
โฑ๏ธ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | People around the world are reported missing every single day and sometimes it's not just a single, but an entire group or even town. |
0:15.8 | The next five stories will leave you wondering how so many people could vanish without a trace. |
0:20.8 | These are the five most mysterious and strange mass disappearances. |
0:24.3 | Number five, USS Cyclops. |
0:29.8 | The US Cyclops The USS |
0:35.0 | Sylops was a 522 foot ship, |
0:38.0 | first launched into service on November 7, 1910. |
0:42.0 | It served the Army prior to and during World War I, acting as an aid and convoy for |
0:47.6 | fuel as well as refugees. After the war, the ship became a transporter of various supplies and on January 9th |
0:55.6 | 1918 it sailed to Rio to unload coal. After that it was loaded with over 10,000 tons of manganese ore to be used for |
1:05.0 | manufacturing munitions. Aside from the cargo, it also accepted 73 local |
1:10.9 | sailors including the American Consulate General of Rio. |
1:16.2 | Before leaving Port, Captain George Warley submitted a report stating that the starboard |
1:20.8 | engine was non-functioning because of a cracked cylinder so the ship was only |
1:25.2 | going to use one engine. This was confirmed by a survey crew and then the ship headed back to the U.S. |
1:34.0 | The Cyclops left Rio on February 16th with 309 people on board plus cargo. |
1:39.8 | It was bound for Baltimore, but it made an unscheduled stop in Barbados. |
1:45.2 | Some say this was because the water level showed it was above the Plimsoe line, suggesting it might |
1:49.8 | be overloaded, while others say the captain insisted on the stop for refueling and adding supplies even though it wasn't necessary. |
1:57.0 | On March 4th, the Cyclops set sail from Barbados due to arrive in the U.S. on March 10th, but she never made it. |
2:06.0 | A search was set up to find it, no distress signal was ever sent out, and there was also no |
2:11.5 | reply from the hundreds of radio communications sent out to them. |
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