Sentence examples for ship displacement from inspiring English sources

(Standard tonnage remains a means of measuring ship displacement in many cases, and it is used here when ship tonnages are listed).

Ship displacement increased from 1,365 tons to 1,500 tons.

All these changes increased the ships' displacement by 540 LT at deep load.

Weight increases were managed by reducing the number of guns, from 10 to 8 the increase in gun caliber added only 36 tons to the ships' displacement.

All of these changes added over 1000 t to the ships' displacement and the sketch design was completed by 16 October 1940, as Project 69-I (Importnyi Imported), even though they still lacked data for the turrets and their barbettes.

The ship displaced 27830 t at standard load, over 3000 t more than 's displacement of 23413 t, and 31877 t at full load.

The ship displaced 15842 t at her designed weight, and up to 17500 t at maximum displacement.

According to an eyeball measurement of the ship's displacement, taken by both Zakharchenko and a surveyor hired by the Russian company that was shipping the ore, and a somewhat hurried calculation of the water density in the harbor, the Odyssey was now filled with sixty-seven thofsand five hundred and nineteen tore of ore: two and a half thousand tons more than the target.

The register ton is defined as 100 cubic feet, the freight or measurement ton as 40 cubic feet; an older measure of a ship's displacement was based on the volume of a long ton of seawater, or 35 cubic feet.

The changes raised the ship's displacement by 74 LT and cost an estimated £161,000.

The reconstruction only added 3500 LT to the ship's displacement and three inches to her draught.