600-ton

Updated: July 13, 2025

You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little not a thing in the world not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 600-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. "It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my first voyage to the East, and my first voyage as second mate; it was also my skipper's first command. You'll admit it was time.

Joseph Conrad - Youth, a Narrative

Red-hot stones and burning cinders fired the ships, the weight of pumice sinking praus and fishing smacks as it fell into the hissing sea, and a 600-ton schooner, thrown by the force of the world-shaking concussion into a mountain cleft of the opposite coast, still lies wedged between the black walls of rock.

Emily Richings - Through the Malay Archipelago