USS Cyclops (AC-4) Collier Ship

Blender 4.2.3
FBX-Blender
FBX-Max
OBJ-Max
MAX 2020

The FBX, MX and OBJ Models are static - No Smoke, No Ocean.

The loss of the ship and 306 crew and passengers without a trace occurred sometime after 4 March 1918 (in the Bermuda Triangle) and remains the single largest non-combat loss of life in the history of the United States Navy.

The Cyclops was nearly 550 feet long, with a crew of 306 people and around 11,000 tons of manganese aboard. She had been sailing successfully since 1910, traveling between the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean and Mexico and assisting with moving coal around the world and helping refugees. But in 1917, when America entered World War I, Cyclops became a key naval asset, transporting troops and coal to fuel other ships all over the world.

The USS Cyclops was a Collier or coal Ship. Carrying coal to refuel the great coal burning battleships of the time.

In March 1918, the ship was given a new cargo: tons and tons of dense manganese ore, used in steelmaking. She left Brazil loaded up with the brittle metal, then voyaged to Barbados to resupply for the long journey home to Baltimore. The last known message from the ship said simply: “Weather Fair, All Well.” But on the nine-day journey, something went awry, and no one from the ship was ever seen or heard again—vanishing without even an SOS.

“Usually a wooden bucket or a cork life preserver identified as belonging to a lost ship is picked up after a wreck, but not so with the Cyclops,” - Santa Fe magazine

“She just disappeared as though some gigantic monster of the sea had grabbed her, men and all, and sent her into the depths of the ocean, and the suddenness of her destruction is amplified by the absence of any wireless calls for help being picked up by any ship along the route.” - Santa Fe magazine

The last known message from the ship said simply: “Weather Fair, All Well.”

The model uses UDIM maps - there are 21 UV - UDIM maps

Objects - 102
Vertices - 1,526,415
Faces - 1,404,593


There is a folder with 1K maps
There is a folder with 2K maps
There is a folder with UDIM maps
There is a folder with Smoke sequence maps
An mp4 with the Wake animation
An exr image for the HDRI background