Class 2 (2nd Engineer) MEKG 📅 Mar 2025

Exam Question

You have been appointed as Second Engineer on a crude carrier, recently purchased by your shipping company. The company superintendent requests that you examine the vessel with a view to increasing its deadweight capacity without altering the ship's length. Outline the suggestions that you would make, justifying your proposals.

Reference Answer

### Introduction
The deadweight capacity of a vessel is the difference between its displacement at a given draught and its lightweight. The fundamental relationship is given by:
$$ Deadweight (DWT) = Displacement (\Delta) - Lightweight (LWT) $$
Displacement is the total weight of the vessel and its contents, equal to the weight of water it displaces:

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