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Built in 1918 in Lorain, Ohio and originally known as the Lake Jessup, the steam freighter with a 43.5-foot beam changed hands several times under different names, including the War Briar and the Ekstrand. In 1935 a Norwegian company bought the steamer from the International Coal Transportation Corp. and re-named her the Iristo. (She is also locally known as the Aristo, probably due to a misspelling of its name in a New York Times article.)
The Iristo was carrying a cargo of 200 barrels of gas…
Built in 1918 in Lorain, Ohio and originally known as the Lake Jessup, the steam freighter with a 43.5-foot beam changed hands several times under different names, including the War Briar and the Ekstrand. In 1935 a Norwegian company bought the steamer from the International Coal Transportation Corp. and re-named her the Iristo. (She is also locally known as the Aristo, probably due to a misspelling of its name in a New York Times article.)
The Iristo was carrying a cargo of 200 barrels of gasoline, a fire engine and a steam roller en route from Newfoundland to Bermuda in March 1937. Unfamiliar with Bermuda’s reefs, Captain Christian Stephensen seeing the wrecked Cristobal Colon standing out of the water, so he mistakenly believed it was moving through the reefs and gave the order to change course and follow the bigger vessel. In doing so, the vessel hit a submerged reef structure near North Rock.
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