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displacement tonnage

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noun

Nautical.

  1. the number of long tons of water displaced by a vessel, light or load displacement being specified.

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The displacement tonnage of a ship increases according to the weight of fuel, passengers, mail or freight with which it is burdened.

From Time Magazine Archive

Less frequently used as an official unit of admeasurement of merchant ships is displacement tonnage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The displacement tonnage of the Royal Navy in 1914 was 2,400,000 tons.

From England, Canada and the Great War by Desjardins, Louis-Georges

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