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Originally Posted by Balor Patch
Wikipedia gives the USS Constitution:
Tonnage: 1,576
Displacement: 2,200 tons
Complement: 450 including 55 Marines and 30 boys
If Tonnage isn't dry weight then I don't know what it could be.
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It
can also be a measure of volume.
This is one of those things that can be really confusing, words don't always mean what they usually mean when talking about sea vessels.