Cyclops (Fleet Collier No. 4): Photographs
| These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive. |
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USS Cyclops (Fleet Collier No. 4) Shown soon after completion. This postal card was postmarked on 21 December 1910. Photo No. None Source: Courtesy Marvin Barrash. |
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USS Cyclops (Fleet Collier No. 4) Photographed by the New York Navy Yard in the Hudson River on 3 October 1911 during the 1911 Presidential Naval Review. Photo No. 19-N-13451 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-A-31. |
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USS Cyclops (Fleet Collier No. 4) Photographed by the New York Navy Yard in the Hudson River on 3 October 1911 during the 1911 Presidential Naval Review. Photo No. NH 55549 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Cyclops (Fleet Collier No. 4) Photographed in the Hudson River on 31 October 1911 during the 1911 Presidential Naval Review. Photo No. LC-B2-2335-8 Source: U.S. Library of Congress. |
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USS Cyclops (Fuel Ship No. 4) Photographed circa 1913 by Sargent. This view shows a third mast aft and is also the first to show the ship with wireless. Photo No. NH 101063 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS Cyclops (Fuel Ship No. 4) Shown re-rigged before January 1916 to support an enhanced wireless installation. Each goalpost mast now has one tall topmast instead of two short ones. Photo No. None Source: Courtesy Marvin Barrash. |
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USS Cyclops (Fuel Ship No. 4) Coaling USS Delaware (Battleship No. 28). A clamshell bucket is dumping coal on the deck of the battleship while another bucket is in operation further aft. The battleship's entire crew is trying to shovel the heaps of coal on deck into chutes leading to the coal bunkers below. Each bucket carried 4,000 pounds of coal. Cyclops could operate twelve buckets at once, one for each of the collier's cargo coal holds. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe. |
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USS Utah (Battleship No. 31) Viewed looking forward from atop # 4 12" gun turret while coaling simultaneously from two colliers at the rate of 841 tons per hour prior to World War I. The ship's band is stationed on top of # 3 turret. The two colliers are Cyclops (Fuel Ship No. 4) on the left and either Orion (No. 11) or Jason (No. 12) on the right. Cyclops had Mead-Morrison coal handling gear while the other collier had Lidgerwood gear. Photo No. NH 61262 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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USS South Carolina (Battleship No. 26) and USS Cyclops (Fuel Ship No. 4) Experimental coaling at sea while under way in April 1914, a capability that the Navy was eager to develop. Rigging between the two ships was used to transfer two 800-pound bags of coal at a time. The bags were landed on a platform in front of the battleship's forward 12-inch gun turret, and then carried to the bunkers. The donor of this post card, a seaman in South Carolina at the time, commented: "it showed that this was possible but a very slow method of refueling.". Photo No. NH 76012 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. |
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