Keel (unit)
Keel was an old English measure of weight. It became particularly important in the coal trade . Ship freights were also measured with this measure. It was also called Newcastle-Keel. But goods such as coal tar, grindstones, stoneware and glass, but also masonry stones were traded with the measure. Since January 1, 1836, hard coal could only be sold by weight.
- 1 shipload = 16 12/63 Scores = 20 Keel = 160 Newcastle Chaldrons = 949,760 pounds
- 1 Keel = 8 Newcastle Chaldrons = 8 bag = 288 large bushel = 47,488 pounds = 527.555 Paris cubic inch
- 1 Keel = 8 Newcastle Chaldrons = 8 Newcastle Chaldrons = 21 1/5 tons
- 1 keel = 527.555 Parisian cubic inches = 10.454 liters
- 20 keel = 1 ship load
- 1 ton = 20 quintals = 112 pounds
- in Szczecin 1 keel hard coal = 7 load
- in Rostock 1 Keel = 11 load
- in Hamburg 1 keel = 112 tons
- in Hamburg 1 keel = 120 tons = 10 load
- in Copenhagen 1 keel = 140 tons
- in Stockholm 1 keel = 160 tons
It also served as a piece measure .
- 1 keel = 28 baskets with stoneware
- 1 keel = 120 sacks of pine soot
- 1 keel = 7000 pieces of fireproof stones
- 1 keel = 10,000 pieces of simple stones
- 1 keel = 60 baskets of glass
literature
- Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers: Volume 2. Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 243.
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight ... Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 302.
- ↑ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world…. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 126.
- ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 313.
- ↑ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world…. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 136.