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Encyclopedia > Deadweight tonnage

Dead weight tonnage refers to the weight, in long tons, that a ship can safely carry when fully loaded. It is a unit of shipping cargo capacity. It also describes the total weight of a ship if it has sunk as a sunken ship does not displace water, making the term 'displacement' incorrect.


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Tonnage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (513 words)
Tonnage is a measure of the size or cargo capacity of a ship.
Gross Tonnage or Gross Register Tonnage is the internal volume of a vessel plus the space on exposed cargo decks (with some exemptions, depending on the assessing body).
Historically, tonnage was the tax on tuns (casks) of wine shipped to England, mostly from Spain and Portugal, under a subsidy granted to the English crown by Parliament starting in the 14th century.
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