Tonnages and displacements in the 16th century

被引:2
作者
Castro, Filipe [1 ]
机构
[1] Texas A&M Univ, Naut Archaeol Program, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
关键词
Tonnage; Metrology; Seafaring; 16th century; Barrels; PEPPER WRECK;
D O I
10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.033
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
Questions associated with the size of ships suggested in historical documents are relevant to giving an idea of the volume of cargoes, the size of crews, cost of freights, or when trying to evaluate competitive advantages in war and commerce. Good estimates are often difficult to obtain from the written record, although some values concerning basic hull dimensions are sometimes mentioned. The establishment of reliable relations between registered capacity, as expressed in coeval documents, and displacement, as it is defined nowadays, would be helpful to both historical and archaeological research. This paper probes into the relations between a number of known formulas to calculate tonnages in the 16th century, and the reconstructed hull of the Pepper Wreck, an archaeologically excavated shipwreck dated to 1606. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1136 / 1143
页数:8
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