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Re: Fleet Book Tonnage

From: Samuel Penn <sam@b...>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 12:38:53 +0100
Subject: Re: Fleet Book Tonnage

In message <l03010d03b1cc1b95db06@[195.188.107.161]>
	  Ground Zero Games <jon@gzero.dungeon.com> wrote:

> >What is the tonnage given in the Fleet Book? Is it the same
> >as that used in Traveller (displacement liquid hydrogen isn't it?)
> >or is displacement something else? (water?).
> >
> 
> I used the term "displacement" in the maritime sense, just to keep the
> "naval" feel - it is simply the ship's mass in metric tonnes.

Okay, thanks. I assumed 'displacement' meant it was really
a volume, rather than a mass, measurement.

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