San Diego WWI sailor lost in Bermuda Triangle
POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM NOVEMBER 20, 2018 (This article appeared on the November 14, 2018, issue of The Enterprise, Duval County Edition. It is used here with permission.) Poncho Hernandez Jr. The Enterprise One hundred years after being lost in the Bermuda Triangle in the rough seas between Barbados and Norfolk, VA, the mystery of the U.S. Cyclops remains unsolved. Leopoldo Esteban Garcia Declared missing on March 4, 1918, after setting sail from the West Indies, the 19,000-ton cargo ship was eventually given up for lost by the Navy, with the relatives of the more than 300 officers, crew members and passengers notified. Leopoldo Estaban Garcia, of San Diego, was among them. Born in 1891 in Duval County, Garcia traveled at the age of 23, to Galveston to enlist as an Apprentice Seaman in the U.S. Navy in 1914. He later served as a Seaman aboard the USS Pittsburg before being assigned to the USS Cyclops. The USS Cyclops was one of four Proteus-class colliers (cargo ships) built...