Shipwreck · Lake Superior
SS William C. Moreland
A lake freighter built in 1910, lost on Lake Superior in 1910. The record: “Wrecked on Lake Superior.”
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio
- Launched
- 27 July 1910
- Length
- 600 ft (183 m)
- Beam
- 58 ft (18 m)
- Tonnage
- 7514 GRT; 5803 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × fixed pitch propeller
- Crew
- 25
- Fate
- Wrecked on Lake Superior
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 47.4174° N, 88.3238° W
The story
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The same decade
Superior losses of the 1910s
- French minesweepers Inkerman and Cerisoles1918
- Gunilda1911 · foundered
- SS Benjamin Noble1914 · foundered
- SS Henry B. Smith1913 · foundered
- SS Leafield1913 · foundered
- SS Myron1919 · foundered
- SS Onoko1915 · foundered
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Hudson3.7 mi · lost 1901
- SS S. R. Kirby5.5 mi
- SS Henry Steinbrenner30 mi · lost 1953
- SS Glenlyon42 mi · lost 1924
- SS Algoma49 mi
- SS Kamloops50 mi · lost 1927
Straight-line distance between published positions.
By boat
Closest launches
- Eagle Harbor8.7 mi
- Lac La Belle Dock15 mi
- Grand Traverse Bay Harbor16 mi
- Mucky Bottom20 mi
On the horizon
Nearest lights
- Eagle River Light1.2 mi
- Sand Hills Light2.7 mi
- Eagle Harbor Light8.2 mi
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS William C. Moreland, retrieved 2026-10-11. We print the fields as recorded and add nothing; a missing field means the record is silent. Tonnage and dimensions were often measured more than one way in their day, so they can differ between sources.
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