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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 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.
What is a two masted boat called that is not square rigged?
It is either a ketch or a yawl. The ketch has the wheel stationed amidships (between the masts) & the yawl has the wheel stationed aft of the mizzen mast.
The aft end of a ship, the stern, will usually have a steering gear for each rudder. There will usually be mooring equipment on deck. Many ships have free-fall lifeboat davits mounted on teh stern as well. There will usually be an aft peak ballast tank.
Did sailing ships sail at night?
Yes - what else could they do on a long voyage. They had lights so that other ships could see them coming.
Why is discipline so important on board the ship?
Because you have many people working in tight quarters. Aboard ship there is no backup, no fire department to call, no service station to stop at. So the crew must be able to handle any emergency or casualty thrown at it.
It is the most efficient way to run a ship.
How old was the youngest captain of a ship?
Admiral David G. Farragut assumed a command of a ship at the age of 12.
What is meant by before the mast?
Before the mast refers to a sailors so called rank or his standing on board, primarlily during the age of sail. Read " Two Years Before The Mast" by Richard Dana. Only the more senior sailors were 'allowed' aft the mast.
Who killed the ghost girl Jackie on the Queen Mary?
she wasn't killed she just drowned. she drowned because her bathing suit got stuck on something
Why should there be more than one plimsoll line?
There is ONLY one legal Plimsoll Line, the International load line, which is a marking on a ship's side showing the limit of legal submersion when loaded with cargo under various sea conditions.
However, depending on the temperature and salinity of the water on which the ship is floating the position of this line (which represents the weight of water displaced by the hull) will vary. So the line is graduated into:-
The American Bureau of Shipping (AB) Line/ Summer Load line (S)
The Tropical Freshwater (TF) line
The freshwater Load line (F)
The tropical Zones load line (T)
The Winter Load Line (W)
Winter North Atlantic Load Line (WNA)
Thus if a ship were loaded to the TF line in tropical Freshwater then moved to the North Atlantic in winter with the same cargo loaded, it should float at the correct line in both conditions.
What does two short horn blast from another vessel mean in a meeting stuation?
They intend to pass starboard side to starboard side.
Click on the related link below. It tells of ships that had iron sheeting put on the outside for protection.
Formal name for ships lookout stations?
Different ships have different names for different areas.
A Crows Nest is located high on the mast. The higher the lookouts position, the farther they can see over the horizon. This is the same as being able to see farther from a tall building than from down on the street.
The area above the bridge is called the Flying Bridge.
The areas on either side of the bridge are called the Bridge Wings.
During periods of low visibility a lookout may be placed on the Bow or Focsle and another stationed on the Stern or back of the vessel.
The main idea at work is the upward force of fluid that opposes the gravitational pull on an immersed object, buoyancy. Water pushes the ship upwards.
In Earth, fluid experience greater pressure the further we go down. This is why we cannot simply go to the bottom of the ocean with a wooden barrel-it will be crushed by the pressure exerted by the water if it will go deep at all. This pressure forces things to go up. And, this force is directly proportional to the weight of the water. This means that things denser than the water will go down. Ships today are made of metal which are denser than the water however, the ship is not composed of only metal. Ships also contain air which is less dense than water. Ships contain more air than metal to decrease its density and become less dense than water to float on it.
Explain why a ship that is mostly made of metal float on the water?
It displaces water and is filled with air.
What ships where built on the Clyde?
One ship is Queen Mary, another ship is the Cameronian and if you search this question on yahoo a wikipedia search result will come.. click on that and you will get a big list! :-D
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