(a) The maximum permissable draft on completion of loading

(b) The amount of cargo which the vessel can load ...
passage, fuel consumption is expected to be 30 tonnes per day and water consumption 15 tonnes per
day.
The ship is at present floating in water of density 1.013 tonnes/m3 at a draft of 9.0 m.
Summer load draft 9.475 m
FWA 203 mm
TPC 30 tonnes/cm
Find :
(a) The maximum permissable draft on completion of loading.
(b) The amount of cargo which the vessel can load.
(Note. A vessel passing from a summer zone to a winter zone, or from a tropical zone to a summer
zone, must arrive at the zone boundary at the draft appropriate to that zone.)
Solution :
(a) Allowance between summer and winter load lines =
summer draft/48 x 1000
9.475 /48 x 1000= 197 mm
As DWA = FWA (1025 – Pn)/25
DWA = 203(1025 - 1013)/25
DWA = 97 mm
To calculate the change of draft while on passage to the boundary of the winter zone, the total
consumption of fuel and water must be calculated and divided by TPC, as follows:
Change of draft on passage
(30 x 10+ 15 x 10)/ 30 = 15 cm
Knowing the DWA and the allowance to make for fuel and water consumed on passage to the zone
boundary, the maximum permitted draft may now be
calculated, as follows:
Summer draft = 9.475 m
S-W allowance = 0.197 m
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Winter draft = 9.278 m
DWA draft = 0.097 m
'In dock' draft = 9.375 m
Passage allowance = 0.150 m
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Max.draft = 9.525 m
Present draft = 9,000 m
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Permitted sinkage = 0.525 m
The calculation so far has established that the vessel may load to a draft of 9.525 m in dock in order
to be at the appropriate winter draft on arrival at the winter zone boundary.
There is another limitation which must be considered, i.e.
will the vessel be deeper than the summer draft plus the DWA when at this draft in the dock?
If so, then the figure of 9.525 m will have to be reduced accordingly and the permitted sinkage will
similarly decrease.
Summer draft = 9.475 m
DWA = 0.097 m
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Max. draft 9.572 m
As this figure is greater than 9.525 m, then 9.525 is clearly the limiting draft to which the vessel can
be loaded in the dock. The amount of cargo to load must now be determined using the permitted
sinkage of 0.525 m or 52.5 cm, again correcting the TPC for the density of the dock water, as
follows:
(b)
TPC d = TPC s P d/ Ps
= 30 × 1013/1025
= 29.65 tonnes / cm.
Cargo to load = sinkage x TPC d
= 52.5 x 29.65 = 1556.6 tonnes at maximum draft of 9.525 m