by William Lafferty » January 9, 2025, 12:04 pm
As you have probably already discovered, deadweight tonnages are difficult to find, especially for vessels classed by Lloyds and the British Corporation earlier. Lloyds Register had no interest in publishing that tonnage until the late '50s, while Mitchell and Sawyer completely ignore all tonnage numbers in The Oceans, the Forts, and the Parks. Generally, as a group, the "Forts" were deemed around 10000 tons deadweight. I was able to find Fort Wrangell, as Lagos Ontario, measured 10776 tons deadweight, Fort Edmonton, as Federal Voyager, measured 10776 as well, and Fort Providence as Dugi Otok measured 10329. I have no idea if these were the original tonnages as built, but I doubt any extensive modification had been done to these old warhorses that would affect their original measurements.
As you have probably already discovered, deadweight tonnages are difficult to find, especially for vessels classed by Lloyds and the British Corporation earlier. [I]Lloyds Register[/I] had no interest in publishing that tonnage until the late '50s, while Mitchell and Sawyer completely ignore all tonnage numbers in [I]The Oceans, the Forts, and the Parks[/i]. Generally, as a group, the "Forts" were deemed around 10000 tons deadweight. I was able to find [I]Fort Wrangell[/I], as [I]Lagos Ontario[/I], measured 10776 tons deadweight, [I]Fort Edmonton[/I], as [I]Federal Voyager[/I], measured 10776 as well, and [I]Fort Providence[/I] as [i]Dugi Otok[/I] measured 10329. I have no idea if these were the original tonnages as built, but I doubt any extensive modification had been done to these old warhorses that would affect their original measurements.