Standard displacement
The standard displacement serves as a benchmark for the size of warships .
Definitions
The term standard displacement was first defined in the Washington Naval Agreement of February 6, 1922 in Chapter 2, Part 4. It is about the displacement of the fully completed, engineered and manned ship. This also includes all armament, ammunition, operating resources, equipment as well as food and fresh water for the crew as well as other equipment and supplies that are carried during the war. Fuel and reserve feed water for the boiler are not included .
In the contract mentioned, standard displacements are given both in British tons (tn.l. from English long ton ) of 1,016 kg and in metric tons of 1,000 kg, whereby the tonnage limits set in the contract result in round figures in British tons.
In German, the term Typverdrängung is also used for standard displacement . Occasionally, the standard displacement given in British tons is also referred to as "standard tons" for short.
The following maximum values for the standard displacement were set in Washington for the respective ship class:
| Cruiser : | 10,000 tn.l. |
| Aircraft carrier : | 27,000 tn.l. |
| Battleships : | 35,000 tn.l. |
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Individual evidence
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- ^ Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905-1970. Licensed edition by Lehmanns Verlag. Pawlak, Herrsching 1970, ISBN 3-88199-474-2 , p. 9f.
- ↑ Peter Doepgen: The Washington Conference, the German Reich and the Imperial Navy. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 2001, DNB 961959746 , p. 115.
- ^ Friedrich Ruge: The sea war. Koehler, Stuttgart 1962, p. 13 and 16.
- ^ Fritz E. Giese: Aircraft carrier In: Wehrkunde. Society for Military Studies, Verlag Walther de Bouché, 1962, p. 320.
- ↑ Robert Ingrim: Hitler glücklichster day. Seewald, 1962, p. 119.