72 × 24 × 1294 = 220·6 tonnage.
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.
The following is the tonnage required for some of the most material ordnance stores by the British usage.
TONNAGE OF ORDNANCE.
| Kinds. | 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 | |||||||
| Do. 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 & 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 in. | 1 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||
| 24 prs. | 1 | 9 | 3 | |||||||||
| 18 prs. | - | 1 | 7 | 0 | ||||||||
| Howitzer | 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 | ||||||||
| 5¹⁄₂ inch howitzer, Do. | ||||||||||||
| 5¹⁄₂ inch howitzer of 10 cwt. | - | Car- riages | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 8 inch howitzer | 3 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||
| Sling cart complete | 3 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| Forage 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 | ||||||||
| Handscrews, small | 17 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
| Helves, pick or felling | 300 | 0 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||
| Do. sledge | 300 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Do. pinmaul | 360 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Junk | 20 cwt. | 1 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||
| Linstocks, with cocks | 600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Linstocks, without cocks | 1000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Musquets.—A chest with 25 is 16 feet. | ||||||||||||
| Do. with 20 is 11 feet. | ||||||||||||
| Match | 6 cwt. | 1 | 14 | 0 | ||||||||
| Powder | - | 11 whole barrels | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| 22 half do. | 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 | 280 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Sheep skins | 12 dozen | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| Shovels | - | of iron | 100 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Spades | 184 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Shovels, shod with iron | 138 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Sand bags Bales | - | Bushel | 500 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||||||
| Half do. | 500 | 0 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2 bushel | 250 | 0 | 8 | 1 | ||||||||
The following is the tonnage allowed in the British service 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 | do. | |
| For a subaltern | 1 | ¹⁄₂ | do. |
TONNE, Fr. A tun. It likewise signifies a large cask or vessel which is used for stores and ammunition.
TONNEAUX Meutriers, Fr. Casks which are bound together with ropes, or circled round by iron hoops, and are filled with gunpowder, pebbles, &c. The particular method in which these casks are prepared may be seen in Tom. II. page 218, Des Œuvres Militaires.
TOOKSOWARS, Ind. The vizir’s body of cavalry.