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[[Image:NYTcyclops.jpg|thumb|250px|right|New York Times reported the loss of the ''Cyclops'' on April 15, 1918.]]
[[Image:NYTcyclops.jpg|thumb|250px|right|New York Times reported the loss of the ''Cyclops'' on April 15, 1918.]]
Naval investigators discovered information from former crewmembers about Worley's habits. He would berate and curse officers and men for minor offenses, sometimes getting violent; at one point, he had allegedly chased an ensign about the ship with a gun. Saner times would find him making his rounds about the ship dressed in long underwear and a derby hat. Worley sometimes would have an inexperienced officer in charge of loading cargo on the ship while the more experienced man was under arrest; in Rio de Janeiro, one such man was assigned to oversee the loading of [[manganese]] ore, something a collier was not used to carrying, and in this instance the ship was overloaded, which may have contributed to its sinking. The phrase "damned Dutchman" (from ''Deutch'', i.e. ''German'') stood out immediately, leading to the most serious accusation against Worley: that he was pro-German in war time and may have colluded with the enemy; indeed, his closest friends and associates were either German or Americans of German descent. "Many Germanic names appear" Livingston stated, speculating that the ship had many German sympathizers on board. One of the passengers on the final voyage was Alfred Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the consul-general in Rio de Janeiro, who was as roundly hated for his pro-German sympathies as was Worley, and Livingston stated he believed Gottschalk may have been directly involved in collaborating with Worley on handing the ship over to the Germans. [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/letter_on_gottschalk.html] After [[World War I]], German records were checked to ascertain the fate of the ''Cyclops'', whether by Worley's hand or by submarine attack. Nothing was found.
Naval investigators discovered information from former crewmembers about Worley's habits. He would berate and curse officers and men for minor offenses, sometimes getting violent; at one point, he had allegedly chased an ensign about the ship with a gun. Saner times would find him making his rounds about the ship dressed in long underwear and a derby hat. Worley sometimes would have an inexperienced officer in charge of loading cargo on the ship while the more experienced man was under arrest; in Rio de Janeiro, one such man was assigned to oversee the loading of [[manganese]] ore, something a collier was not used to carrying, and in this instance the ship was overloaded, which may have contributed to its sinking. The phrase "damned Dutchman" (from ''Deutch'', i.e. ''German'') stood out immediately, leading to the most serious accusation against Worley: that he was pro-German in war time and may have colluded with the enemy; indeed, his closest friends and associates were either German or Americans of German descent. "Many Germanic names appear" Livingston stated, speculating that the ship had many German sympathizers on board. One of the passengers on the final voyage was Alfred Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the consul-general in Rio de Janeiro, who was as roundly hated for his pro-German sympathies as was Worley, and Livingston stated he believed Gottschalk may have been directly involved in collaborating with Worley on handing the ship over to the Germans. [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/letter_on_gottschalk.html] After [[World War I]], German records were checked to ascertain the fate of the ''Cyclops'', whether by Worley's hand or by submarine attack. Nothing was found.
Despite these accusations, both Naval records and Worley's widow stated that Worley was pro-American not only during the war, but in the previous twenty-five years of Naval and merchant service. Gottschalk, sources indicate, had resigned his post in Rio for the sole purpose of enlisting in the Army.
===Prisoners of the ''Cyclops''===
===Prisoners of the ''Cyclops''===