A pennyweight is 24 grains, or 1 twentieth of a troy ounce. Used to be the weight of a silver penny.
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it heavily depends on the vessel type and calculation examples are quite old (Stopford, 1982). Tankers: 1 GT=1,75 dwt Bulkers: 1 GT = 1,7 dwt General Cargo: 1 GT = 1,44 dwt Container: 1 GT = 1 dwt Passenger 1 GT = 0.9 dwt
About 1.56 grams per dwt
1dwt is 1.56 grams.
"pennyweight-- a measurement of weight in the troy system equal to 24 grains, or 0.05 ounce. Its metric equivalent is 1.555 grams" --http://www.juniordentist.com/gpt-terms-d.html
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