Mysterious Disappearance of the USS Cyclops

Castle-Yankee54

Castle-Yankee54

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humanoidlord said:
i am blaffed on how many people never heard of this case
i guess i know too much ufology for my own good
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b006.

I didn't recognize the name......the confusion came when you brought up something on the other side of the world from the Bermuda Triangle. You also added to confusion when I said it was the guy that went missing over the Bass Strait the first time......but you said no. Australia isn't in the Atlantic Ocean.
 
Gambeir

Gambeir

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nivek said:
Who rates these things?...
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Lo~ Ok, I'm rating this one as a two star mystery at most. I mean given the history of the ships they must have had a design flaw somewhere. Either they failed structurally, or their structures somehow enabled the coal bunkers to heat up enough so that there was self combustion, and leading to an explosion or out of control fires, or it was something along those lines.

The USS Main probably feel victim to just such an event.
Coal bunker Fire

Of all four ships only the Jupiter/Langley was accounted for by loss through enemy action. All others vanished unaccounted for while at sea. I mean clearly there was some issue. Maybe the Langley, being a naval ship, and after so many modifications and changes, that these had so changed the original design, as she was no longer a coal fired ship but oil powered, and so she survived until sunk in wartime action.

This strongly suggests that the other ships were probably lost to coal fires as only the Langley had been converted to oil fired turbines.
 
humanoidlord

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
Castle-Yankee54 said:
b006.

I didn't recognize the name......the confusion came when you brought up something on the other side of the world from the Bermuda Triangle. You also added to confusion when I said it was the guy that went missing over the Bass Strait the first time......but you said no. Australia isn't in the Atlantic Ocean.
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ok ok ok, jeez! just because i forgot that that part of the ocean is named bass strait
 
humanoidlord

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
Gambeir said:
Lo~ Ok, I'm rating this one as a two star mystery at most. I mean given the history of the ships they must have had a design flaw somewhere. Either they failed structurally, or their structures somehow enabled the coal bunkers to heat up enough so that there was self combustion, and leading to an explosion or out of control fires, or it was something along those lines.

The USS Main probably feel victim to just such an event.
Coal bunker Fire
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more confused people :huh8:
 
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