Every station within radio communication of her route and every ship within call during the time of her passage, including foreign ships, was asked for any fragment of information. The search was continued as long as it seemed possible to gain news of her, but nothing definite was ever heard. The only suggestion of how she may have been lost is contained in a message to the Navy Department from the First Naval District, received June 6, 1918: "Mr. Freeman, now in Boston, telephone address held in this office, states log of U.S.S. _Amalco_ shows that on night of March 9 U.S.S. _Cyclops_ was about five miles distant. March 10 heavy gale damaged the _Amalco_. Capt. C.E. Hilliard, of the _Amalco_, now at 2876 Woodbrook Avenue, Baltimore, Md." On April 22 the commander in chief of the Pacific fleet sent to the Navy Department the following statement of her cargo: "U.S.S. _Cyclops_ had by tally of bucket 10,604, by draft in feet 10,835 tons manganese, distributed number one hold 10,614; number two hold 1,995; number three 2,250; number four 1,875; number five 2,870. Cargo stowed direct on wood dunnage in bottom of hold. Reports differ as to whether cargo was trimmed level or left somewhat higher in middle. Incline to latter belief. Reported also vessel had 4,000 tons of water, mostly in double bottoms. So far as ascertained, no steps taken to prevent increasing of metacentric height, and this must have been considerably increased." What caused the catastrophe will probably never be known, but with one of her engines reported out of order she was not in the best condition to weather the storm reported by the _Amalco_, and it is not unlikely that a sudden shifting of her cargo caused her to capsize and to be instantly engulfed. Exactly one hundred days from the date of her sailing the following order was issued: "From: Secretary of the Navy. "To: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (via Bureau of Navigation). "Subject: Re official declaration of death of men on board the Navy collier _Cyclops_. "I. The following named enlisted men in the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps should be officially declared dead as of June 14, 1918, deaths having occurred in the line of duty through no misconduct of their own:" (Here followed a list of the crew and passengers of the Navy collier _Cyclops_ at the time of disappearance.) "(Signed) Franklin D. Roosevelt, "_Acting_." In his annual report for 1918 the Secretary of the Navy states "_Cyclops_ was finally given up as lost and her name stricken from the registry." Causes of the Destruction of Lost Ships.