04-25-2006, 10:50 AM
Quote:What I need to know is the capacity of a grain ship. Anyone?
Unfortunately no direct mention of cargo capacity.
"The trade ships become round and bellied with a relation of 3 or 4 to 1 and they have first one mast and are nearly always built with a square rig."
Jochen Brennecke, Geschichte der Seefahrt, p.25
I know that the upper limit of later cogs were 500 t and the above description at least superficially resembles the characteristic features of cogs (bellied, square rig, one mast). In any case, later Roman grain ships were much larger than their earlier Greek counterparts, so dont go with their sizes.
Regards
Stefan (Literary references to the discussed topics are always appreciated.)
