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At 23,876 gross tons, she was the largest ship in the world until 1905.

Million gross ton miles per employee has gone from 6.08 to 11.50, an 89 percent increase.

The ship was 365 feet long and measured 5,002 gross tons.

The overall size of the ship was 2,731 gross tons.

Overall size of the ship as built was 324 gross tons.

She was 14,947 gross tons at the time and could make a top speed of 15 knots.

She measured 1,856 gross tons and could carry 60 passengers.

Over seventeen million gross tons of ore went out from 1885 to 1961.

Three vessels of 215 to 222 gross tons were built as water carriers.

At 45,324 gross tons, it is the largest ship afloat.

The overall size of the vessel was more than doubled, from 324 to 676 gross tons.

She was 566 feet long, 69 feet wide and registered 17,537 gross tons.

European Union shipbuilders, as a group, were third, producing four million gross tons.

These were the first liners to exceed 50,000 gross tons and 900 feet in length.

It has three berths and can handle vessels of up to 39,999 gross tons.

The smaller 'three island' type of around 2,800 gross tons were built between 1941 and 1944.

China, a rising competitor, ranked fourth, at 1.6 million gross tons.

Enchantment was lengthened by 73 feet in 2005, making it over 80,000 gross tons.

Commercial traffic using the lock paid a local toll of 5 cents per gross ton.

In 2009, 11,669,000 gross tons of newly built container ships were delivered.

At 91,655 gross tons she was, and remains, the largest British ship ever to have been lost at sea.

All merchant vessels of 500 or more gross tons known or believed to have been lost.

A second and slightly larger sister ship, the Jubilee, was built in 1986 at 47,262 gross tons.

In the water, she displaced 581 gross tons.

It applied to vessels in excess of 100 gross tons, excluding river craft.

Through May 1993, traffic is down 1.4 million long tons from the previous year.

The ship could discharge all 14,000 long tons of her cargo in 48 hours.

After 1790 output soared, reaching 16 million long tons by 1815.

Say, they thought about pairs by the long ton.

The long ton is used for petroleum products such as aviation fuel.

A long ton is defined as exactly 2,240 pounds.

The ton of 2240 pounds is called the "long ton".

Total weight in working order was 97 long tons, distributed as shown in the table below.

They dropped from 4.25 million long tons in 1980 to 3.96 million in 1989.

She had capacity for a cargo of up to 2,200 long tons of coal.

The displacement, essentially the weight, of a ship is traditionally expressed in long tons.

Here, in 1952, he built the Petrokure of 38,000 long tons.

She could carry 6,000 long tons of coal.

This led the Royal Navy to ask for an 80 long ton (81 t) gun.

Increasingly, tonnes are being used rather than long tons in measuring the displacement of ships.

The class displaced nearly 2,000 long tons more than the preceding Trafalgars.

He figures that when he finds Glory he'll go through a long ton of condoms in about a week.

Built as a flotilla leader, she displaced 15 long tons more than the rest of her class and carried an extra 30 personnel.

Ground pressure was very high, even though at 11.7 long tons the vehicle was not very heavy for its size.

In 1958, Ludwig broke the barrier of 100,000 long tons of heavy displacement.

Then judge this- World Steel reports an overproduction of twenty thousand long tons.

It must weigh less than ten long tons, enabling lifting by passenger liner davits.

This hoard would measure many long tons.

The company will invest $120 million and will receive 29,000 long tons of ingots a year.

Like Displacement, it is often expressed in long tons or in metric tons.