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light displacement

American

noun

Nautical.

the weight of a ship with all its permanent equipment, excluding the weight of cargo, persons, ballast, dunnage, and fuel, but usually including the weight of permanent ballast and water used to operate steam machinery.

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The run down Southampton Water was necessarily performed at quarter-speed, for in spite of her light displacement the Capella's wash at full speed was almost equal to that of a liner.

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.

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