a stone is 14 pounds in american weight.
a stone is 14 pounds in american weight.
how much is a stone in american weight?
14 pounds
traditionally, both britain and the us used three different weight systems: troy weight for precious metals, apothecaries' weight for medicines, and avoirdupois weight for almost all other purposes. however, apothecaries' weight has now been superseded by the metric system.









































one important difference is the widespread use in britain of the stone of 14 pounds () for body weight; this unit is not used in the united states, although its influence was seen in the practice of selling flour by a barrel of 196 pounds (14 stone) until world war ii.
comparison of the imperial and us customary measurement systems
at the time the official rating of a ship did not accurately reflect the number of cannon mounted. thus hms "shannon" (1065 tons burthen) was classed as a 38 gun ship but mounted 48 guns in total. uss "chesapeake" (1135 tons burthen) was variously rated a 36 or 38 gun ship but mounted 49 guns in total. broke mounted a number of very small carronades in order that ships' boys and younger midshipmen could have cannon light enough for them to practise on. the force of a ship was usually calculated as "weight of metal." this was the aggregate of the weight of all the cannonballs capable of being fired in one broadside (i.e., when half of the cannon, all the guns on the same side, were fired). the british weight of metal was 547 pounds, the american weight of metal was 581 pounds. the two ships were very well matched with no preponderance of force on either side.
philip broke