Ship pound

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The ship pound is an old trade weight . It was measured very differently from region to region. It was widespread mainly in Germany , here in the larger cities and port cities as well as in Sweden , Denmark , Russia and the Netherlands . It was a major unit of weight, on the order of three quintals, or 300 pounds . The reason for the different weight was the regionally different weight as a basis. A distinction was also made between land and ship freight. Often a distinction was also made between victual weight or scarf weight .

Aachen, Amsterdam, Nuremberg

  • 1 ship pound = 300 pounds

Berlin

Braunschweig

  • 1 ship pound = 20 lispounds = 280 pounds
  • 1 ship pound = 3 quintals = 343 pounds

Emden

  • 1 ship pound = 100 pounds

Hanover

  • 1 load = 12 ship pounds
  • 1 ship pound = 20 lispounds

Koenigsberg

  • 1 ship pound = 20 lispounds = 3 quintals = 330 pounds

Lueneburg, Lübeck

  • 1 ship pound = 20 lispounds = 320 pounds

In Lübeck, at Federn, the packaging was also weighed and counted.

Livonia (Liefland)

  • 1 ship pound = 20 lispounds = 400 pounds

Oldenburg

1 ship pound = 29 lispounds = 290 pounds

Riga, Reval

  • 1 ship pound = 20 lispounds = 400 pounds

Rostock

  • 1 ship pound = 20 lispounds = 280 pounds (also 320 pounds)

Sweden

  • 1 ship pound = 20 lispounds = 400 pounds

Metal trade

In the metal trade, the ship pound was different:

  • Pig iron 1 ship pound = 26 pound pounds = 195.402 kilograms
  • Raw copper 1 ship pound = 20 lispounds = 150.912 kilograms
  • Mine weight with 375.7728 grams / pound results in 1 ship pound = 150.309 kilograms

Other dimensions

Despite the same 20 lis pounds with 20 pounds per ship pound, the weight was

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of coins, measurements and weights of all countries in the world ...., Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1830
  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin change, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 457

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect. 1793 "ship pound"
  2. ↑ Brockhaus 1809, The Ship Pound
  3. ↑ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 1905 Schippond ("Schiffpfund")
  4. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world ... , Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830 p. 300
  5. ^ Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher: JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 222