Moorsom tonnage

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• Moorsom System — The Moorsom System is a method created in Great Britain of calculating the tonnage or cargo capacity of sailing ships as a basis for assessing harbour and other vessel fees. It was put into use starting in 1849 and became British law in 1854.… …   Wikipedia

• Tonnage — Not to be confused with Ton. Tonnage is a measure of the size or cargo carrying capacity of a ship. The term derives from the taxation paid on tuns or casks of wine, and was later used in reference to the weight of a ship s cargo; however, in… …   Wikipedia

• Net tonnage — is calculated by measuring a ship s internal volume and applying mathematical formulae. Net tonnage (often abbreviated as NT, N.T. or nt) is a dimensionless index calculated from the total moulded volume of the ship s cargo spaces by using a… …   Wikipedia

• Gross tonnage — Gross Tonnage, along with Net Tonnage, was defined by The International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969 , adopted by the International Maritime Organization in 1969, and came into force on July 18, 1982. These two measurements… …   Wikipedia

• Net register tonnage — See also: Ton#Units of volume Net register tonnage (NRT, nrt, n.r.t.) is a ship s cargo volume capacity expressed in register tons , one of which equals to a volume of 100 cubic feet (2.83 m3). It is calculated by reducing non revenue… …   Wikipedia

• Deadweight tonnage — As weight is added to a ship, it submerges. Maximum DWT is the amount of weight a ship can carry without riding dangerously low in the water …   Wikipedia

• Compensated gross tonnage — (CGT) is an indicator of the amount of work that is necessary to build a given ship and is calculated by multiplying the tonnage of a ship by a coefficient, which is determined according to type and size of a particular ship. The standard CGT… …   Wikipedia

• Schiffsvermessung — ist die Ermittlung des Raumgehaltes eines Seeschiffes (engl. tonnage of a ship) Tonne = Fass aus dem Keltischen (mittelirisch/gälisch: tunna) von dort ins Mittellateinische (tunna = Fass, um 600 n. Chr. in die germanische und romanischen… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Geschichte des Sueskanals — Der Sueskanal wurde in den Jahren 1859 bis 1869 von der von Ferdinand de Lesseps gegründeten und geleiteten Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez gebaut und von ihr bis zur Nationalisierung im Jahre 1956 betrieben. Seitdem untersteht er …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Builder's Old Measurement — (BOM) is the method of calculating the size or cargo capacity of a ship used in England from approximately 1720 to 1849. The BOM estimated the tonnage of a ship based on length and maximum beam. The formula is: Tonnage = frac {({Length} Beam}… …   Wikipedia

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