Editing USS Cyclops (section)

===Aftermath===
That ''Cyclops'' was overdue and feared lost was front-page news in various American newspapers on 15 April 1918, following an announcement by the Navy.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-naval-collier-cyclops-m/137866023/ |title=Naval Collier Cyclops Missing, 18 New Englanders Among 293 Feared Lost |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=1 |date=April 15, 1918 |accessdate=January 1, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-big-collier-is-m/137866155/ |title=Big Collier Is Missingt |newspaper=[[Chattanooga Daily Times]] |location=[[Chattanooga, Tennessee]] |page=1 |date=April 15, 1918 |accessdate=January 1, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>

On 1 June 1918, Assistant Secretary of the Navy [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] declared ''Cyclops'' to be officially lost, and all hands deceased.<ref name="Cutler2005">{{cite book|last=Cutler|first=Thomas J.|title=A sailor's history of the U.S. Navy|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4SDNJtV85RIC&pg=PA199|access-date=4 March 2012|year=2005|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn= 978-1-59114-151-8|page=199}}</ref>{{efn|Newspapers reported that ''Cyclops'' was declared officially lost in late August 1918 by Secretary of the Navy [[Josephus Daniels]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-missing-cyclops-officia/137871845/ |title=Missing Cyclops Officially Lost |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=10 |date=August 31, 1918 |accessdate=January 1, 2024 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>}} The loss of ''Cyclops'' was noted in the ''Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy'' for 1918.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy |author=United States Department of the Navy |year=1918 |page=28 |publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office|GPO]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qGSM61lS23QC&pg=PA28}}</ref>

One of the seamen lost aboard ''Cyclops'' was African-American mess attendant Lewis H. Hardwick, the father of [[Herbert Lewis Hardwick]], "The Cocoa Kid", an [[List of Puerto Ricans of African descent|Afro-Puerto Rican]] welterweight boxer who was a top contender in the 1930s and 1940s, who won the [[World Colored Welterweight Championship|world colored welterweight]] and [[World Colored Middleweight Championship|world colored middleweight]] championships.<ref>{{cite web|last=Toledo|first=Springs|title='Just Watch Mah Smoke,' Part I: Lost at Sea|date=10 March 2011 |url=http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/12170-just-watch-mah-smoke-part-i-lost-at-sea|website=The Sweet Science|access-date=26 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312003700/http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/articles/12170-just-watch-mah-smoke-part-i-lost-at-sea |archive-date=March 12, 2011 |via=[[Wayback Machine]]}}</ref>