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SS William C. Moreland, the Glossary

SS William C. Moreland was a long Great Lakes freighter that ran aground on Sawtooth Reef, Lake Superior on 18 October 1910, only a month after entering service.^[1]

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Maritime incidents in 1910
Ships powered by a triple expansion steam engine
Shipwrecks of the Michigan coast

American Ship Building Company

The American Ship Building Company was the dominant shipbuilder on the Great Lakes before the Second World War.

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Ashtabula, Ohio

Ashtabula is the most populous city in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States.

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Beam (nautical)

The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.

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Bow (watercraft)

The bow is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is usually most forward when the vessel is underway.

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Sikuliaq'', docked in Ketchikan, Alaska Wheelhouse on a tugboat, topped with a flying bridge A bridge (also known as a command deck), or wheelhouse (also known as a pilothouse), is a room or platform of a ship or submarine from which the ship can be commanded.

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Bulk carrier

A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo—such as grain, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement—in its cargo holds.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Compound steam engine

A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.

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Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County.

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Ecorse, Michigan

Ecorse is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States.

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Great Lakes Engineering Works

The Great Lakes Engineering Works (GLEW) was a leading shipbuilding company with a shipyard in Ecorse, Michigan, that operated between 1902 and 1960.

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Gross register tonnage

Gross register tonnage (GRT, grt, g.r.t., gt), or gross registered tonnage, is a ship's total internal volume expressed in "register tons", each of which is equal to.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Jones and Laughlin Steel Company

The Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, also known as J&L Steel or simply as J&L, was an American steel and iron manufacturer that operated from 1852 until 1968.

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Keweenaw Peninsula

The Keweenaw Peninsula is a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Keweenaw Underwater Preserve

The Keweenaw Underwater Preserve is a preservation area in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Lake freighter

Lake freighters, or lakers, are bulk carrier vessels operating on the Great Lakes of North America. SS William C. Moreland and lake freighter are Great Lakes freighters.

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Lake Superior

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater.

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Length between perpendiculars

Length between perpendiculars (often abbreviated as p/p, p.p., pp, LPP, LBP or Length BPP) is the length of a ship along the summer load line from the forward surface of the stem, or main bow perpendicular member, to the after surface of the sternpost, or main stern perpendicular member.

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Length overall

Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline.

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Lorain, Ohio

Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States.

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Net register tonnage

Net register tonnage (NRT, nrt, n.r.t.) is a ship's cargo volume capacity expressed in "register tons", one of which equals to a volume of.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Propeller

A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.

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Sarnia

Sarnia is a city in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada.

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Scotch marine boiler

A "Scotch" marine boiler (or simply Scotch boiler) is a design of steam boiler best known for its use on ships.

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Ship breaking

Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.

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Stern

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.

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Superior, Wisconsin

Superior (Gete-oodenaang) is a city in, and the county seat of, Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Upper Peninsula of Michigan

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P.—is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_William_C._Moreland

Also known as S.S. William C. Moreland, S.S. William C. Moreland (1892), SS William C Moreland, SS William C. Moreland (1910), William C. Moreland (bulk freighter), William C. Moreland (freighter), William C. Moreland (ship), William C. Moreland (shipwreck), William C. Moreland (steamer).