Final Wreck Location
In the 1930s the steamship companies had a lot of problems with the Seamen's Union. This and the switch from luxury liners to cheaper transportation as well as the closing of the cloth mills in Massachusetts caused the downfall of these great liners. In the 1930s the City of Taunton was grounded in Somerset, Massachusetts, and left to waste.
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