24. Profile and upper deck plan of oil tank carrier with Diesel engine

25. Profile of cargo vessel with small passenger accommodations, Diesel engines...

26. Profile of steam “schooner" for west coast United States lumber trade...

27. Displacement curve and scale........

28. Displacement curves, U. S. battleship South Carolina .

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FORMS.

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1. British tonnage certificate...

2. British tonnage formula...

3. Suez Canal tonnage certificate..

4. German nnage certificate...

5. American tonnage certificate.

Panama Canal tonnage certificate.

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TABLES.

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I. Measurement of gross tonnage under the measurement rules of Great Britain, Suez Canal Co., Germany,

and the United States....

II. Gross tonnage of steamers measured by British, Suez, and American rules..

III. Gross tonnage of two German steamers measured by Suez, German, and American rules..

IV. Deductions other than for propelling power under the measurement rules of Great Britian, Suez Canal

Co., Germany, and the United States..

V. Gross and net tonnage of eight steamers as determined by the British, American, and Suez measurement

rules...

VI. Gross and net tonnage of two German steamers as determined by the German, American, and Suez

measurement rules....

VII. Gross and net tonnages of the metal steam vessels of the world, 1890, 1900, 1910, and the percentage

deducted from the gross in ascertaining the net.......

VIII. Gross and net tonnages of vessels that passed through the Suez Canal, 1891-1893 and 1903–1912..

IX. Displacement, and gross and net tonnage, British and Suez measurements, of five British warships ...

X. Normal displacement, and gross and net tonnage, Suez measurement, of different types of American

warships...

XI. Range of block coefficients of selected representatives of different types of American naval vessels....

XII. Treatment (in 1913) of superstructures and shelter deck spaces under the measurement rules of Great

Britain, the Suez Canal Co., Germany, and the United States......

XIII. Nations that have adopted the Moorsom ton and the Moorsom measurement system

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I. American laws concerning the measurement of vessels....

II. Rules and regulations of the United States concerning the measurement of vessels..

III. British laws concerning the measurement of vessels.....

IV. British Board of Trade instructions relating to the measurement of ships..

V. The ship measurement ordinance of Germany.

VI. Ship measurement instructions issued by the German Government March 26, 1895.

VII. Technical directions issued December, 1908, by the German Government to the ship-measurement

boards concerning the execution of the ship-measurement ordinance of March 1, 1895...

VIII. Comparative analysis of the French, British, and German ship-measurement rules....

IX. Comparative analysis of the provisions of the tonnage certificates issued to vessels in France, England,

and Germany...

X. Report of the International Tonnage Commission, signed at Constantinople December 18, 1873.

XI. History of the measurement of tonnage of vessels using the Suez Canal.....

XII. Suez Canal Co.'s rules for the measurement of vessels....

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XIII. Memorandum by the Universal Maritime Canal Co. of Suez on the application of the rules of 1904 rela-

tive to the measurement of superstructures, Paris, 1909...

XIV. British Board of Trade instructions to surveryors concerning the measurement of vessels for the issue of

Suez Canal certificates.......

XV. Instructions of the German Government for the application of the Suez rules to the measurement of

vessels....

XVI. Comparative analysis of the provisions applying the Suez rules for the measurement of vessels by French,

English, and German surveyors....

XVII. Instructions and regulations relating to the measurement of ships of the United States Navy for ton-

nage certificates used in navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal...

XVIII. Report of the British Royal Commission on Tonnage, 1881

XIX. Law, rules, and regulations for the government of St. Marys Falls Canal...

XX. Regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War for the use, administration, and navigation of the Louis-

ville & Portland Canal....

XXI. Operating regulations and navigation charges of the Suez Maritime Canal, January, 1913..

XXII. Traffic regulations and code of signals of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal....

XXIII. Regulations and by-laws and notices to mariners and pilots governing the use of the Manchester Canal..

XXIV. General regulations governing the use of rivers and canals in the Netherlands..

XXV. Special regulations relating to the North Sea (Amsterdam Canal).

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PART I.

TONNAGE AND MEASUREMENT RULES.