Timeline for Technical term describing the weight of a ship
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| Dec 18, 2016 at 18:22 | comment | added | Laurence | I don't think ship-ton is a thing. | |
| Dec 14, 2016 at 4:37 | vote | accept | Mark | ||
| Dec 13, 2016 at 7:43 | comment | added | Kevin | I think a ship-ton is largely appropriate here ;-) | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 4:54 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/808535475476631552 | ||
| Dec 13, 2016 at 3:06 | comment | added | Brian Donovan | Yes, displacement is rightly measured in units of weight or mass rather than of volume, and is equal to the weight or mass of the vessel. The volume of water displaced, even with a given lading, will vary according to the specific gravity of the water in question, which will be greater for salt water than for fresh, by about 2.7 to 2.9 percent (the higher figure for the Red or Med). | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 2:27 | answer | added | 3kstc | timeline score: 13 | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 1:31 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | Referring to a ship's weight is perfectly acceptable as long as the ship is not floating. A ship in drydock would probably be described as weighing X tons, as long as the subject involves something like moving it with at crane. Referring to it in terms of its normal operation (floating), Hot Licks is correct and displacement is normal. | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Generally, "displacement" is used, expressed in tons or tonnes. It is the weight of water displaced by the ship, and hence, as Archimedes will tell us, the weight of the ship: The HMS Hot Licks has a displacement of 150 tonnes. | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 1:03 | history | asked | Mark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |