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gross ton

NOUN
  1. a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds

How To Use gross ton In A Sentence

  • The SS Cumberland was a steel twin-screw steamship of 8993 gross tons and 144.4m in length.
  • I found your gross tongues disgusting in their barbarism, but still I learned them.
  • Admiral Cunningham has stated we would gain nearer three than two million gross tons of shipping could we free the Mediterranean route. Finishing the Job
  • It is worth remembering that the average size of steamers in the British tramp fleet was only 3,500 gross tons as late as 1910.
  • The Landing Ship Infantry Empire Broadsword was built in Wilmington, USA in 1942, gross tonnage 7177 tons, and given to Britain as part of Lend Lease.
  • The Arctic Sunrise is a medium-sized vessel, weighing 949 gross tons.
  • Ted Seel, a Cairo-based security expert, explains that the fee structure for the Suez Canal depends on the size, or more specifically the weight, in gross tons, of a ship.
  • He has nearly a million gross tons of ships under construction - worth more than $4 billion.
  • They also welded together 5,200 merchant ships totalling 39 million gross tons.
  • Japanese coast guard officials said the ship's registry gave the vessel's tonnage at 243 ton gross tons and indicates that it had previously sailed to Japan.
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