Catastrophe Off Martha’s Winery: The Sinking of the Metropolis of Columbus

With its rocky coast and treacherous shoals, shipwrecks have been a typical prevalence in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Few claimed as many lives because the Metropolis of Columbus. The night time was clear and the route acquainted for Captain Schuyler Wright and his skilled crew as they sailed a ship geared up with the most recent expertise. But with all this, the Metropolis of Columbus went down with 103 souls. Over a century later, Eric Takakjian and the Quest Marine Companies group positioned the wreckage of the Metropolis of Columbus on the north ledge of the Satan’s Bridge, off the southern tip of Homosexual Head. Historian Thomas Dresser takes us into the icy waters of the Atlantic as he recounts the horrible chain of occasions that led to catastrophe on that fateful night time.