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Large Ships
A ship is commonly defined as having a bow (front) and stern (back), and is built for ocean travel for the purpose of commercial or military transport. Ocean liners, container ships, and destroyers are classified as ships.
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How speed is measured in ships?
The question can be understood in to different ways:
1. What is the standard measurement unit at sea?
This would be the knot, which is equal to 1 nautical mile per hour. A nautical mile is about 1.8 km.
2. In a ship, how navigators can tell how fast is the ship going?
There are a few ways to do that. One is to plot your position in a chart, maintain course and speed and after a while plot again the position, knowing time elapsed and distance traveled, you can then calculate average speed. Another one is by using a device called a speed log (there are several types). A third one, is to get a readout from your GPS receiver's display.
How long is the intrepid in feet?
The most recent ship to bear that name is the USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11). which is, as built:
- 820 feet (250 m) waterline
- 872 feet (266 m) overall (the flight deck overhangs the waterline by quite a bit.)
there are many company who make it like Hong Kong Ferry Company
If a vessel is trimmed by stern is it deeper in the water aft?
Yes, a vessel trimmed by the stern has a greater draft aft. Trimming by the stern increases stability of the vessel, but increases the turning radius of that vessel. For a given hull shape (form or geometry) and block coefficient, trimming by the stern can have some profound effects on the behavior of the vessel as it comes about, particularly at speed.
What are a few ways people get lost at sea?
People can get lost at sea if:
- their small boat cannot handle big waves
- their boat gets a leak in it
- their boat breaks down mechanically
- their boat hits a reef
- ocean floating garbage, especially plastics or fish netting, fouls the propeller
- a fisherman on board fouls the propeller
- a rouge wave overturns the boat
- a huge storm overturns the boat
- a whale jumps out of the water in an act called breaching so they can see above the water, and lands accidentally on the boat (recently happened to a yacht)
- the crew got lost, couldn't read charts
- another bigger ship runs into a smaller boat and either doesn't notice or flees the scene
- the captain forces passengers overboard
- the passengers fall overboard
- they might have dropped their compass in the ocean
and so, there is noway to get back to the dock.
What name is given to a detailed daily record of a ships progress?
The detailed and daily records of a ships' progress AND everything else (weather, oil-levels, water-levels, tidyness, tenure, etc) going on onboard the ship is being added almost as it happens onboard into the log book by both Captain and Chief Mate. If the ship has a Chief Engineer, he has a similar book for the engine room.
You put on/in a ship or raft etc. That makes it float better or makes in more stable
Here are some details about the new 92,000 tonne cruise liner 'Queen Elizabeth', which is sometimes referred to as the Queen Elizabeth III or the QE3:
Length: 964ft (294m)
Height: 211.9ft (64.6m) from the top of the funnel to the bottom of the keel.
Height from water line to top of funnel: 185.7ft (56.6m)
Width: 106ft (32.25m)
Number of decks: 16
Passenger capacity: 2092
Crew: about 1000
Queen Elizabeth II, the British Monarch, officially named this new 'Queen Elizabeth' ocean liner on Monday October 11, 2010.
Which type of ship can carry the most cargo?
If you consider the "most cargo" to be by weight or volume then the answer would be a Supertanker. VLCC stands for Very Large Crude Carriers. These tankers can carry up to 400,000 tons of crude oil and are over 1,000ft in length.
How can a Ships light weight LWT be derived given the Displacement DWT and the gross tonnageGRT?
It can't. Gross tonnage is a measure of volume, while displacement is a measure of weight.
The light ship displacement is equal to the total displacement minus the deadweight.
