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draft: a standalone construct

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draft1 CONSTRUCTShip's draftBIRAN · WATERLINE DEPTH

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Naval architecture

A hull's depth below the waterline

The vertical distance from the waterline down to the lowest point of a ship's hull, which fixes the minimum depth of water the vessel needs to float without grounding: the draft rises as cargo is loaded, because a floating hull sinks until it displaces its own weight in water. Biran and Lopez-Pulido's 2014 Ship Hydrostatics and Stability set out how draft is read from the hull, tied to displacement through the law of buoyancy, and used to judge loading and clearance. The referent is a measured length of a physical hull in water, given in metres, and it is a different thing entirely from a state's conscription policy, a rough version of a text, or a sports league's intake of players.[1]

Unit
The vertical distance from the waterline to the lowest point of the hull, in metres
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Read from draft marks on the hull and computed from the loaded displacement using the vessel's hydrostatic curves

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References

  1. Biran, A., & Lopez-Pulido, R. (2014). Ship hydrostatics and stability (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann.

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