Iristo (Aristo)

Built in 1918 in Lorain, Ohio and originally known as the Lake Jessup, the The Iristo was carrying a cargo of 200 barrels of gasoline, a fire engine and a steam roller. In 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. She sits in 50 Feet