The Moorsom System is a method created in the United Kingdom of calculating the tonnage or cargo capacity of sailing ships as a basis for assessing harbour and other vessel fees. It was put into use starting in 1849 and became British law in 1854.
5-635: Moorsom may refer to: Moorsom System for calculating tonnage of sailing ships HMS Moorsom , two Royal Navy ships People with the surname [ edit ] Constantine Richard Moorsom (1792–1861), Royal Navy admiral, businessman and abolitionist James Marshall Moorsom (1837–1918), British Liberal Party politician Lewis Moorsom (1835–1914), English cricketer Robert Moorsom (1760–1835), Royal Navy admiral William Moorsom (1804–1863), English engineer See also [ edit ] Moorsom family tree : showing relationships between some of
10-444: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Moorsom System Previous methods of calculating tonnage, such as Builder's Old Measurement , were not consistently applied. Additionally, the methods designed for sailing ships could not be applied appropriately or fairly to steamships. Substantial portions of a steamship were required for boilers, machinery and coal, thus limiting
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20-424: The internal volume of entire ship. The Commission sought to avoid a significant change in the fees charged to an existing vessel when the new system was implemented. George Moorsom ordered the entire fleet of British merchant ships to be measured according to the new System and then divided the total gross tonnage by the total registered tonnage. The result was 98.22 cubic feet (2.781 m ) per gross ton, which
25-456: The proportion of the ship's space available for cargo. In 1849, the United Kingdom appointed a Commission with Admiral George Moorsom as secretary to resolve these problems. The Commission determined that fees should be proportional to the earning capacity of the ship, whether for cargo or passengers. The result was called The Moorsom System, which set forth the rules for the measurement of
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