Measurement of vessels for the Panama canal (1913)
Johnson, Emory Richard, 1864-1950, United States. War Dept · Washington : Govt. print. off. · leaf 83
he weight of water displaced by a vessel when loaded to its deep-load line isite displacement loaded. The difference between the displacement tonnage of a vesselwhen light and when loaded to its deep-load line is its dead-weight tonnage, which is themaximum weight of fuel, cargo, and passengers… … MEASUREMENT OF VESSELS FOR PANAMA CANAL. 37 that is below the water line divided by 35 equal the vessels displacement tonnage. If a shipwere box-shaped—that is, if it were a parallelepiped—the product of its three dimensions infeet, its length, breadth, and its depth below the water line, divided…
Huebner, Grover Gerhardt, 1884 · Ships · Tonnage
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