A vessel has a deadweight carrying capacity...

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A vessel has a deadweight carrying capacity of 10,500 tons. Fuel, water, and stores require 1500 tons. The cubic capacity is 500,000 cubic feet. Which cargo will put her full and down?

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Question 1 of 27070

A vessel has a deadweight carrying capacity of 10,500 tons. Fuel, water, and stores require 1500 tons. The cubic capacity is 500,000 cubic feet. Which cargo will put her full and down?

🔍 Key Concepts

• Deadweight tonnage vs. cargo capacity (subtracting fuel, water, stores from total deadweight) • Stowage factor (SF) as cubic feet per ton of cargo and how it relates to volume used • Condition of a ship being "full and down" (simultaneously at maximum draft and filled cubic capacity)

💭 Think About

• First, calculate how many tons of cargo the vessel can carry after fuel, water, and stores are loaded. How many tons are left? • Then, using the cubic capacity and each stowage factor, determine how many tons of each cargo could fit by volume. Which SF makes the volume-limited tons match the weight-limited tons most closely? • Think about whether a low or high stowage factor makes a cargo heavy for its size (dense) or light for its size (bulky), and which type is needed to be both full (by volume) and down (by draft) at the same time.

✅ Before You Answer

• Be sure you correctly compute available cargo deadweight (total deadweight minus 1500 tons for fuel, water, stores). • For each option, compute maximum tons by volume: $\text{Tons} = \frac{\text{Cubic capacity}}{\text{SF}}$ . Compare this to the cargo deadweight you found. • Check which cargo option makes the ship hit both limits at once: cargo tons allowed by weight ≈ cargo tons that fit by volume. That will be the "full and down" cargo.