Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Classification-Tonnage (1920)
“ Registered tonnage is all the enclosed cargo spaces and it is on this tonnage that ships pay all claims, such as wharfage, pilotage, light and canal dues. But when describing the tonnage on her naval fleet, England measures displacement, that is, in terms the cubic feet of water the ship would displace. ”
Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Classification-Tonnage (1920)
“ Great Britain, in describing her tonnage of mercantile marine, refers to gross tonnage of all the enclosed spaces on board the ship, which is the measurement inside the hull at one hundred cubic feet to the ton ”
Frank Coffee, Forty Years On The Pacific — Classification-Tonnage (1920)
“ Owing to the number of ships falling into her possession and the scarcity of American navigating officers, the United States Government in July, 1917, gave permission for qualified officers, subjects of any nation engaged in war against the Imperial German Government, to take charge of, and navigate, ships sailing under the American flag. Prior to this date the law prescribed that all watch officers should be citizens of the United States. ”
