Kardele

Kardele , also just Kardel for short , was a German volume measure for Tran . It was important at the time of whaling . It was estimated that the good extract from 100 Kardele whale bacon resulted in 80 Kardele Tran. The use of the measure by other countries cannot be proven.

• 1 cardel / barrel = 64 rooms
  • 1 Trantonne = 32 rooms
• Hamburg : 1 cardele = 128 pints (French)

literature

• Oken: Isis or Encyclopedia Newspaper. Volume 1, 1818 booklet I-VI, Jena 1818, p. 372.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Heinrich Ludwig Bergius: Policey and Cameral Magazine: in which, according to alphabetical order, the most distinguished and most important matters occurring in the Policey and Cameral system ... Volume 6, Andreean Buchhandlung, Frankfurt / Main 1771, P. 279.