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 2294 Breadth. INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINE CONVENTION. JULY 5, 1930. the length is measured from the foreside of the stem to the axis of the rudder stock. For ships with cruiser stems, the length is to be taken as 96 per cent. of the total length on the designed summer load water- line or as the length from the fore side of the stem to the axis of the rudder stock if that be the greater. Rule XXXIII.-Breadth (B). The breadth is the maximum breadth in feet amidships to the moulded line of the frame in iron or steel ships, and to the outside of the planking in wood or composite ships. Rule XXXIV.- Moulded Depth. Moulded depth. The moulded depth is the vertical distance in feet, measured amidships, from the top of the keel to the top of the freeboard deck beam at side. In wood and composite ships the distance is measured from the lower edge of the keel rabbet. Where the form at the lower part of the midship section is of a hollow character, or where thick garboards are fitted, the depth is measured from the point where the line of the flat of the bottom continued inwards cuts the side of the keel. Rule XXXV. - Depthjor Freeboard (D). Depth ot freeboard. The depth used with the Freeboard Table is the moulded depth plus the thickness of stringer plate, or plus T (LL S) if that be greater, where- T is the mean thickness of the exposed deck clear of deck openings, and S is the total length of superstructures as defined in Rule XL. Where the topsides are of unusual form, D is the depth of a midship section having vertical topsides, standard round of beam and area of