Monday, November 30, 2009

How much tonage of cargo can a galleon vessel from the 1700s carry? (And state source if you have one.)?

From what I come up with, galleons were generally superseded by other types of cargo vessels by the 1700s (18th century). East Indiamen (17th and 18th century) and Clippers (mid-18th century to mid-19th century)(1,2)





';. . . from the mid 1500s until the end of the 1600s. . .';


';The medium galleon's hull design allows it to carry some 500 tons of cargo, which is 30% more than narrower ships of similar length. ';(2)





BTW: Note: a ship's tonnage was related to its cargo carrying capacity. The ton did not actually refer to a ship's weight, but to its volume: a ton was a large container used primarily for shipping wine; it held about 950 liters, which today is just short of a metric ton of liquid.(3)

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