Re: Campaign rules?

On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Mike Miserendino wrote:

> Rob Paul wrote:
> >Remember that the displacement volume is only the submerged portion
of the
> >hull- the hull above the waterline and the superstructure would add a
great
> >deal of volume.
> 
> Actually, displacement volume will account for the entire ship.  The
amount
> of fluid displaced by the ship is equal to the weight(calculated with
> gravity) of the entire ship.	A 40k Ton ship will displace 40k Tons of
fluid.

Eh... yes and no. Hal was trying to convert displacement tons into ship 
_volume_, not ship _mass_. A 40kTon ship will displace 40kTon of fluid 
(water, usually <g>) or else it sinks, but the _volume_ displaced is the

volume of the part of the ship below the waterline. Looking at many 
modern ships, this is less than half the total volume of the ship.

Oerjan Ohlson

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