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Hello Parsecboy, friendly note on standard displacement. You may want to use "normal displacement" or "load displacement" for the high seas fleet articles you've been editing. "Standard displacement" is basically a term of art from the Washington Naval Treaty. It's defined as full load minus fuel and water, as I recall. The British pushed for the definition. Something to do with keeping Nelson and Rodney legal. But "standard displacement" as such didn't exist before 1922. I can't vouch for internet sources, but almost all print materials will use "normal displacement" or "load displacement" for ships that preceded the Treaty. For whatever reason, the term has outlasted the treaty, and I dont know the reason for that.
And good work by the way on your ship articles. I hope you don't mind me poking around and changing small things here and there. Orpy15 (talk) 23:15, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
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