On 1 June 1918, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt declared "Cyclops" to be officially lost, and all hands deceased. One of the seamen lost aboard "Cyclops" was African-American mess attendant Lewis H. Hardwick, the father of Herbert Lewis Hardwick, "The Cocoa Kid", an Afro-Puerto Rican welterweight boxer who was a top contender in the 1930s and 1940s, who won the world colored welterweight and world colored middleweight championships. In 1918, a short summary of the loss of "Cyclops" was listed in the U.S. Navy Annual Report.