1501. You are scheduled to load 4700 tons of cargo, 45 tons of crew effects and stores and 323 tons of fuel. Use the blue pages of the Stability Data Reference Book to determine the vessel's mean draft in salt water.

The correct mean draft is determined by summing the cargo, crew effects and stores, and fuel weights, adding that total to the vessel's lightship displacement, and then referencing the Stability Data Reference Book's hydrostatic tables to find the corresponding draft, which is 19'-00'.