Ship's cargo capacity

Usage examples of tonnage.

She had forged into the waters of Kure Bay, dragging her tonnage of chains and weights behind her, and she had come to rest, floating solidly, immovable under the urge of the wind, a vast cliff of steel towering above the workshops and cranes and other ships.

The whole of the centre of the broad deck, a portion of the Winkelried which, owing to the over-hanging gangways, possessed, in common with all the similar craft of the Leman, a greater width than is usual in vessels of the same tonnage elsewhere, was so cumbered with freight as barely to leave a passage to the crew, forward and aft, by stepping among the boxes and bales that were piled much higher than their own heads.

The main features of the planning were long, northerly outward and return routes over Denmark and the Baltic which would be well away from most of the German night-fighter bases but would also reduce the bomb tonnage carried by the raiding force, and raids by Oboe Mosquitoes on four of the most important night-fighter airfields in Holland, this support being provided for the first time.

Purely in the matter of thews, sinews and tonnage, I mean of course, for whereas Roderick Spode went about seeking whom he might devour and was a consistent menace to pedestrians and traffic, Stinker, though no doubt a fiend in human shape when assisting the Harlequins Rugby football club to dismember some rival troupe of athletes, was in private life a gentle soul with whom a child could have played.

My tonnage was quite insufficient to enable me to engage Spode in hand-to-hand conflict, and I toyed with the idea of striking him on the back of the head with a log of wood.

This queer little barkentine, of light tonnage but wonderful sailing qualities, is remembered in every port between Sitka and Callao.

The parliament, who had so good an opportunity of restraining these arbitrary taxes when they voted the tonnage and poundage, thought not proper to make any mention of them.

They were preparing a remonstranace against the levying of tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament.

They then openly asserted, that the levying of tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament, was a palpable violation of the ancient liberties of the people, and an open infringement of the petition of right, so lately granted.

The parliament did not grant the duty of tonnage and poundage to Henry VIII.

The following interval between the second and third parliament, was distinguished by so many exertions of prerogative, that men had little leisure to attend to the affair of tonnage and poundage, where the abuse of power in the crown might seem to be of a more disputable nature.

The inquiries and debates concerning tonnage and poundage went hand in hand with these theological or metaphysical controversies.

Sir John Elliot framed a remonstrance against levying tonnage and poundage without consent of parliament, and offered it to the clerk to read.

Those who levied tonnage and poundage were branded with the same epithet.

Tonnage and poundage continued to be levied by the royal authority alone.