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>> It turns out it’s a proper scientific discipline dedicated to the engineering of ships. No. It is about the engineering of all sorts of things. Ships are
by sandworm101 5y ago
>> It turns out it’s a proper scientific discipline dedicated to the engineering of ships.
No. It is about the engineering of all sorts of things. Ships are a subset. I'd say that it covers all things that float, but that wouldn't include docks, cranes and other things that integrate with ships.
>>As containers are added the ship will sink a little and increase its draft – the distance between the bottom of the hull and the waterline.
This is the wikipedia answer. In the real world "draft" is the lowest part of the ship, which might be something other than the hull. Sailboats especially measure draft from the bottom of their keel, a thing lower than the hull. The "hull" is the watertight body and doesn't include things like keels and rudders which, while uncommon on large vessels, normally extend well below the hull's depth.
- opium_tea 5y agoIt's amazing what different people take from articles. That someone would read through this page and instead of appreciating the effort and craft their response would be an absolute textbook example of tedious internet pedantry.
- sandworm101 5y agoOr someone who has to spend too much time around navy people who obsess about these definitions, people for whom small errors can lead to poorly loaded holds or vessels hitting rocks because they didn't know their draft from their hull depth.
- NotEvil 5y agoBut thise people won't come here to find answers to there questions. Whould they? They will learn it in there professional or academic life.
- VLM 5y agoI live in a recreation state, and to provide some numbers there are well over three times as many registered boats in my home state than there are naval O-6 rank ship captains. Just in one state. Admittedly "beaching" a nuclear air craft carrier is more important to the USA than a local bubba beaching his fish trawler on a sandbar; but to bubba as an individual, its more important not to beach his fishing boat as avoidance of beaching his fishing boat is actionable for bubba, whereas watching TV reports of a naval accident are not.