Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks - Explore Shipwrecks


	deck
	Horizontal or cambered and sloping surfaces on a ship, like floors in a building.


	fore
	1. The front part of a ship. 2. In the direction of or toward the bow.


	aft
	(Or after.) Near, toward or at the stern of a ship.


	port
	The side of a ship that is on the left of a person facing forward.


	bilge
	1. Part of the underwater body of a ship between the flat of the bottom and the straight vertical sides. 2. Internally, the lowest part of the hull, next to the keelson.


	keelson
	A structure of timbers or steel beams that are bolted to the top of a keel to increase its strength. Also spelled kelson.

Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks - Explore Shipwrecks - Louisiana

LOUISIANA

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Exploring the port stern quarter of the Louisiana

It is believed that additional parts of the hull, including portions of the upper sides, deck , and superstructure, remain to be found in deeper water to the west and northwest of the site.

The engine and boiler were salvaged in 1920, but many miscellaneous engineering components such as bearings, pipes, and sheet metal surround the iron engine mount and broken bases for the fore and aft cylinders in the stern. The mount consists of an iron base fastened to wooden supports. The broken base of the fore and aft cylinders are found to port of the engine mount. A 10-foot-long section of pipe from the steam-powered bilge pump is located to the port side of the stern keelson , running down into the bilge through the ceiling.

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