It is the actual weight of the ship and everything aboard her at any given time..

Displacement

This law states that any body completely or partially submerged in a fluid (gas or liquid) at
rest is acted upon by an upward, or buoyant, force. The magnitude of this force is equal to
the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
Archimedes principle

What term is used to describe the weight of the hull. machinery, and water in the boiler?
Light displacement

It is the weight that must be added to a ship in order to cause her to sinkone centimete
TPC

It is the ratio between the underwater volume of the ship and that of a box shape with the
same length, breadth, and mean draft.
Block coefficient

This is usually referred to by seafarers as the 'Coefficient of Fineness'?

Block coefficient

What is the upward force exerted on an object by a liquid, which is equal to the weight o f the
liquid that has been displaced?
Buoyancy

What term is used to describe the sum of the weights of all cargo, stores, bunkers etc.. in a
ship?
Deadweight

What do we call the potential buoyancy of the ship, which depends upon the intact and
watertight volume above the waterline?
Reserve Buoyancy

It is the Geometrical Center of the submerged volume displaced by the ship.

The centre of buoyancy (B)

What is the Fresh water density?

1.000t/m3

What is the term for the amount by which the ship would increase her draft when passing
from seawater to freshwater?
Fresh Water Allowance

What is the instrument used for measuring the density of the water?
Hydrometer

What factors affect the most when determining the density of the water?
Temperature and salinity
It is the ship's inclination caused by external forces.
Hell

It is the inclination of a ship caused by uneven distribution of weights, either to port or

starboard side of the ship.
List

It is the ability of the ship to return to upright position when she is inclined or heeled by
external forces.
Stability

What is the term used to describe the change in a ship's mean draft (in millimeters) when it
passes from saltwater to dockwater?
Dock Water Allowance (DWA)

It is the horizontal distance from G to Z as the ship inclined to either of the side.

What are those horizontal lines extending forward and aft from a vertical line placed at a
distance of 540mm from the center of the disc?
load lines

What is basic freeboard line at the same level as the Plimsol Line?
Summer loadline

What is marked above the Summer load line, representing 1/48th of the summer draft?
Tropical loadline

What is marked below the Summer load line, representing 1/46th of the summer draft?
Winter load line

What is marked 50mm below the Winter load line?

Winter North Atlantic

What is the load line to which the distance between S and Frepresents the FWA?
Fresh Water load line

It is the fresh water load line in the Tropics. It is marked above the 'T' at an amount equal to
the Fresh Water Allowance (FWA).
Tropical freshwater

What was required from all oil tankers of 5000 deadweight tons or more to have prompt
access to computerized shore-based damage stability and residual structural strength
calculation programs?
Emergency Response Services (ERS)
What is the regulation number from MARPOL Annex I that requires oil tankers to be fitted
with loadicators capable of calculating damage stability compliance?
MARPOL Annex l regulation 28.6

Righting Lever

What is the term used to describe equal and opposite forces acting on different parts of a
body?
couple

It is the horizontal distance between the vertical forces acting through B and G when ship is
heeled by external forces.
Lever GZ

It is the condition of the ship when there is NO inclination to either port or starboard.
Upright

What do we call the condition of the ship having NO trim, and when both fore and aft d raft
readings is the same?
Even keel

On stability calculation. It is known as the horizontal distance of GZ.

Righting lever