Ship’s keel 72 feet: breadth of beam 24 feet.
| (72 × 24 × 12) | = 220.6 tonnage. |
| 94 |
The tonnage of goods and stores is taken sometimes by weight and sometimes by measurement; and that method is allowed to the vessel, which yields the most tonnage. In tonnage by weight, 20 cwt. make 1 ton. In tonnage by measurement 40 cubic feet equal 1 ton. All carriages, or other stores to be; measured for tonnage, are taken to pieces, and packed in the manner which will occupy the least room on board ship. All ordnance, whether brass or iron, is taken in tonnage by its actual weight. Musquet cartridges in barrels or boxes; all ammunition in boxes; and other articles of great weight are taken in tonnage, according to their actual weight.—See also the word [Embarkation].
The following is the tonnage required for some of the most material ordnance stores.
Tonnage of Ordnance.
| Nature. | Nᵒ. | T. | ct. | qr. |
|---|
Axes, complete
with handles | Pole | 264 | — | 10 | 0 |
| Pick | 100 | — | 9 | 0 |
| Felling | 176 | — | 14 | 0 |
| Barrows— | Wheel | packed | 20 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| ” | unpacked | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hand, | single | 20 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| Budge barrels | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bricks | 1000 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| Buckets of leather | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Pontoon and carriage complete,
with its appurtenances | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Carbines.— | A chest with 25 stand
is 11 feet cubic | |
| Carriages.— | Standing | | 42 Prs. | | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| | | | 32 Prs. | | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| | Howitzer | | 10 Inch. | | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| | | | 24 Prs. | | 1 | 9 | 8 |
| | Howitzer | | 18 Prs. | | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| | | | 8 Inch. | |
| | 12 Prs. | | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| | 9 Prs. | | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| | 6 Prs. | | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| | 4 Prs. | | 0 | 17 | 0 |
Carriages.—Travelling,
complete with limber
boxes, ladles, sponges
and rammers | 24 Prs. | | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 12 Prs. | | 4 | 10 | 2 |
| 9 Prs. | | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| 6 Prs. | | 3 | 7 | 2 |
| 3 Prs. | | 2 | 19 | 0 |
| Medium | 24 Prs. | | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| 12 Prs. | |
| 6 Pr. light, with ammunition boxes | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 5½ Inch howitzer, ” ” |
| 5½ Howitzer of 10 cwt. | Carriages | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 8 Inch Howitzer | 3 | 7 | 2 |
| Sling cart, complete | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Forge cart, with limber | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Ammunition waggon | 4 | 18 | 1 |
| Gravel cart | 2 | 16 | 2 |
| Duke of Richmond’s close bodied waggon | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Road waggon, with upright sides | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| Gin; triangle | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Grate for heating shot | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Handspikes | 120 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Handcrow levers, of 5 feet | 120 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Handscrews, | large | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| | small | 17 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Helves, | pick or felling | 300 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| ” | sledge | 300 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ” | pinmaul | 360 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Junk | 20 cwt. | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Linstocks, | without cocks | 1000 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| | with cocks | 600 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Musquets.— | A chest with 25 is 16 feet. | |
| ” | ” with 20 is 11 feet. | |
| Match | 6 cwt. | 1 | 14 | 0 |
| Powder | 11 whole barrels | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 half” | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Pitch or tar.—1 barrel is 7 feet. | |
| Pistols.—A chest with 50 or 60 = 10 feet. | |
| Park pickets | 40 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| Pikes | 12 dozen | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sheep Skins | 280 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Shovels of iron | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Shovels, shod with iron | 138 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Sand bags
Bales | Bushel | 500 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| ½ ” | 500 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 2 Bushel | 250 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
The following is the tonnage allowed to the military officers of the ordnance embarked for foreign service, for their camp equipage and baggage:
| For a field officer | 5 | tons. |
| For a captain | 3 | ” |
| For a subaltern | 1½ | ” |
| 12th June, 1799. |
TRANSPORTS.—See the word [Embarkation].
TRENCHES.—A general term for all the approaches at a siege of a fortified place.