ship load

{{Short description|Imperial unit of mass for coal}}

Ship load is a United Kingdom unit of weight for coal equal to 20 keels or {{convert|949,760|lb|kg|lk=on}}.{{Cite book|title = Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures|url = https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediasci00card_616|url-access = limited|last = Cardarelli|first = François |publisher = Springer|year = 2003|isbn = 978-1-4471-1122-1|location = London|pages = [https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediasci00card_616/page/n71 48]}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJJVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2376|title=Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures|last=Gyllenbok|first=Jan|date=2018-04-12|publisher=Birkhäuser|isbn=9783319667126|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-lEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA6|title=General View of the Agriculture of the County of Northumberland: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement|last1=Bailey|first1=John|last2=Culley|first2=George|date=1797|publisher=S. Hodgson|language=en}}