Lost in the wreck of the steamer "City of Columbus" off Gay Head, Jan 18 1884.
The passenger steamer City of Columbus ran aground on Devil’s Bridge off the Gay Head Cliffs in Aquinnah, Massachusetts, in the early hours of January 18, 1884. She was owned by Boston & Savannah Steamship Company and was built in 1878 by John Roach and Sons, at Chester, Pennsylvania. City of Columbus made regular runs from Boston, Massachusetts to Savannah, Georgia.
Lost in the wreck of the steamer "City of Columbus" off Gay Head, Jan 18 1884.
The passenger steamer City of Columbus ran aground on Devil’s Bridge off the Gay Head Cliffs in Aquinnah, Massachusetts, in the early hours of January 18, 1884. She was owned by Boston & Savannah Steamship Company and was built in 1878 by John Roach and Sons, at Chester, Pennsylvania. City of Columbus made regular runs from Boston, Massachusetts to Savannah, Georgia.
Inscription
PERISHED
IN THE WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP CITY OF COLUMBUS
JANUARY 18, 1834,
EDWARD SPRAGUE RAND, BORN MARCH 15, 1810,
ELIZABETH ARNOLD RAND, HIS WIFE.
REVEREND CHARLES ARTHUR RAND, BORN NOVEMBER 4, 1843.
HARRIET JEANNETTE RAND, HIS WIFE.
FRANCES MARY RAND, BORN MAY 22, 1875.
THE ARM OF THE "LORD HATH MADE THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA
A WAY FOR THE REDEEMED TO PASS OVER."
NON NOBIS SOLUM
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