More history for the day

Time has an article by Jennifer Latson about a disappearance in the maybe-it-was-maybe-it-wasn't Bermuda Triangle:

The USS Cyclops (photo) was seen for the last time, headed north from Barbados through what’s known as the Bermuda Triangle, and the Cyclops went off the grid somewhere north of Barbados, it became one of the most popular examples of the uncanny dangers lurking within the Bermuda Triangle.
One of the Navy’s largest fuel ships, the Cyclops was last seen on 4 March 1918, when it stopped in the West Indies on its way from Brazil to Baltimore, Maryland, carrying ten thousand tons of manganese ore to be used in manufacturing munitions. But the ship never made it to Baltimore, nor did any of its three hundred or so passengers and crew members. Despite an exhaustive search effort, no trace was ever found of the ship, and Navy investigators never landed on a definite cause for its disappearance.
What made it all the more mysterious, according to a contemporary account in The New York Times, was that the captain never sent a distress signal, nor did anyone aboard respond to radio calls by the hundreds of American ships in the vicinity. What’s more, there were no storms strong enough to cause the Cyclops to founder, according to the Times, which went on to suggest that the ship might have been the target of German mines or U-boats. According to the Naval History and Heritage Command, one contemporary magazine suggested that a giant octopus had “risen from the sea, entwined the ship with its tentacles, and dragged it to the bottom.”
The Navy, however, discounted the likelihood of either German or giant octopus attacks, opening the door to more supernatural speculation, and the Cyclops joined the list of more than a hundred ships and planes to have disappeared under strange circumstances in the triangular region roughly bounded by Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico.
While the Bermuda Triangle became a cultural fixation of the 1950s and 1960s, it has by now been repeatedly and comprehensively debunked. Its reputation as a kind of earthly black hole suffers every time a vanished plane or vessel reemerges, as when the remains of five Navy bombers, which became known as the Lost Squadron after they disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945, turned up off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1991.
And, although there’s still no trace of the Cyclops, there is, at least, an alternate explanation. It centers on a captain more eccentric than Ahab, with a fondness for “pacing the quarterdeck wearing a hat, a cane, and his underwear,” and against whom some of his crew had already attempted a mutiny before they reached Barbados, per the Navy. As quoted in Gian Quasar’s book Distant Horizons, the US Consul in Barbados wrote to the State Department following the ship’s disappearance, noting that the captain had appeared to be deeply disliked by his fellow officers, and that, in suppressing the recent mutiny attempt, he had imprisoned members of his crew and executed one.
“While not having any definite grounds I fear a fate worse than sinking,” the consul writes, “though possibly based on instinctive dislike felt towards master.”

Rico says it wouldn't be the first mutiny in the Navy over bad officers...