SHIP WEIGHT DATA CONVERSION FROM MARITIME TO NAVAL CLASSIFICATION,

There are disparities between the design and building practices of U. S. maritime and of naval ship construction. Examination of these disparities is made difficult by differences between the associated systems for estimating and tabulating weight data. This paper presents a means for converting weight information from the Maritime system to the Navy weight system. This conversion system was devised to assemble and present, on a common basis, data from these different weight estimating systems.