RE: DS2 Resins to FT or FTFB Mass

http://www.sea-man.com/terms.html for definitions of naval terms...

Deadweight Tonnage:

DEADWEIGHT/DWAT/DWCC- A common measure of ship carrying capacity. The
number
of tons (2240 lbs.) of cargo, stores and bunkers that a
vessel can transport. It is the difference between the number of tons of
water a vessel displaces "light" and the number of tons it displaces
"when
submerged to the 'deep load line'." A vessel's cargo capacity is less
than
its total deadweight tonnage. The difference in weight between a vessel
when it is fully loaded and when it is empty (in general transportation
terms, the net) measured by the water it displaces. This is the most
common,
and useful, measurement for shipping as it measures cargo capacity.

> ----------
> From: 	Thomas
> Anderson[SMTP:thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk]
> Reply To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Sent: 	Tuesday, November 24, 1998 1:09 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	RE: DS2 Resins to FT or FTFB Mass
> 
> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Jeff Lyon wrote:
> > At 01:10 PM 11/24/98 +0000, you wrote:
> > >...the largest tanker, the jahre viking, is 575,000 tonnes...
> > 
> > I've seen that figure quoted a couple of times now.
> 
> by me both times i think; it really does strike me as funny that
anyone
> could possibly imagine building something so big in the first place. i
> sort of imagine these norwegian shipping execs sitting down and saying
> "you know, what we really need is a *really* big tanker to scare the
> swedes ...".
> 
> >  Is that fully loaded
> > or empty?
> 
> a brief look at the web says 564 763 deadweight tons. deadweight means
> fully loaded. 69 metres wide, 458 metres long (77 m longer than the
empire
> state buliding is high). for the authoritative answer, someone should
> consult Lloyd's Register of Shipping; i happen to have left mine at
home
> :-).
> 
> http://www.intertanko.com/tanker_facts/biggest.htm
> 
> Tom
>