- Look up Burden or
burden in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Burden or
burthen may
refer to:
Burden (surname),
people with the
surname Burden Burden,...
-
maximum beam. It is
expressed in "tons burden" (Early
Modern English:
burthen,
Middle English: byrthen), and
abbreviated "tons bm". The
formula is: Tonnage...
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Modest Proposal For
preventing the
Children of Poor
People From
being a
Burthen to
Their Parents or Country, and For
making them
Beneficial to the Publick...
- 160 tons, 18 guns Serpent, 160 tons
burthen, 18 guns Requin, 260 tons
burthen, 24 guns Indiscret, 260 tons
burthen, 24 guns In the
eighteenth and early...
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century were 12 to 18 m (40 to 60 ft) in
length and
measured 40 to 70 tons
burthen. They
carried four to
eight smaller guns on
single decks. Over time, vessels...
- 82 ft) long, 5 to 8
meters (16 to 26 ft) wide, and were of 30–200 tons
burthen. Cogs were
rarely as
large as 300 tons
although a few were considerably...
- (Wager's Action), 8 June 1708.
General characteristics Type
Galleon Tons
burthen 1,051 tons
Length 71.00
codos (of 564 mm)
lower deck length; 60.18 codos...
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technically frigates. ^* The ton in this
instance is the
burthen tonnage (bm). From c.1650 the
burthen of a
vessel was
calculated using the
formula k × b ×...
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people that
British slave ships could transport,
based on the ships' tons
burthen (bm). It was the
first British legislation enacted to
regulate slave shipping...
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earliest purpose-built men-of-war in the
English navy. She was over 500 tons
burthen and had a keel of over 32
metres (105 ft) and a crew of over 200 sailors...
