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The upshot was that American calculations gave a lower number than the British ones. The British measure yields values about 6% greater than the American. For instance, when the British measured the captured USS President, their calculations gave her a burthen of 1533 7 ⁄ 94 tons, whereas the American calculations gave the burthen as 1444 ...
The ton is derived from the tun, the term applied to a cask of the largest capacity.This could contain a volume between 175 and 213 imperial gallons (210 and 256 US gal; 800 and 970 L), which could weigh around 2,000 pounds (910 kg) and occupy some 60 cubic feet (1.7 m 3) of space.
This template is intended to allow entry of imperial weights (Avoirdupois), measured in tons, hundredweights, quarters and/or pounds (ton, cwt, qr and/or lb) and provide a conversion into pounds and into tonnes (metric tons) or kilograms (if the first parameter is blank or zero).
The crane can lift 1,000 tons of debris, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Friday. ... Investigators have used audio and data from the 213-million-pound ship’s voyage data recorder to extract clues ...
A long ton, also called the weight ton (W/T), [1] imperial ton, or displacement ton, is equal to: . 2,240 pounds (1,016.0 kilograms; 1.0160 metric tons) exactly 12% more than the 2,000 pounds of the North American short ton, being 20 long hundredweight (112 lb) rather than 20 short hundredweight (100 lb)
It took Lynn Mansel, the executive pastry chef at Mohegan Sun, 10,000 pounds of cake batter and nearly 5,000 pounds of frosting to create a seven-tiered, frosted behemoth weighing over 15,000 pounds.
Fenner commanded Dreadnought, a ship of 400 tons, [8] in Drake's successful raid on Cádiz in the summer of 1587, after narrowly escaping shipwreck off Cape Finisterre at the outset of the cruise. [9] The fleet of 23 ships and around 2,000 men had weighed anchor and sailed from Plymouth on 2 April 1587. [8]
Mary Galentine Fenner (née, Galentine; May 17, 1839 - July 10, 1903) was an American poet and litterateur. [1] She wrote for the Rural New Yorker before becoming a prolific versifier. She was also involved in the temperance and suffrage movements.