For the first and only time in history American tonnage actually began to threaten British supremacy.
The deep-water tonnage required for Canada was not over ten or twelve thousand, distributed among perhaps forty vessels on the European route and twenty more that only visited the French West Indies.
This, in addition to the transport required by the British forces in Canada, sent freights and tonnageup by leaps and bounds.
But her tonnage is much greater, more than eleven thousand gross, and her rig is entirely different.
There was probably no trade in which the overflow of the new output of tonnage was more quickly felt than in that of China.
An example may be quoted illustrative of the localtonnage famine which occasionally prevailed during that transition period.
Yet the Chinese also made so much money by subletting their chartered tonnage that foreigners were tempted into the same business, without the same knowledge or assurance of loyal co-operation at the various ports traded with.
Tonnage was tonnage all the world over, and became subject to the comprehensive control in which the gold and silver produced in distant countries was held by the great financial centres.
Another incident of the same period will show how it was possible for a bold operator to exploit the tonnage of the world on a considerable scale without the aid of the telegraph, or even of rapid communication by letter.
British shipping was, in fact, reduced to the greatest depression, the falling off in the supply of new tonnagebeing almost commensurate with the increase of that of the United States.
The ship reached the loading port at a moment when there was no tonnage available and much produce waiting shipment, and she was immediately filled up at about L7 or L8 per ton.
They were allowed tonnage space, the captain's share being 56 tons, which they could either fill with their own merchandise or let out to third parties.
The total tonnage afloat under the American flag bade fair at one time to rival that of Great Britain.
One such operator in London, reckoning up the prospective supply and demand of tonnage throughout the world, foresaw this very scarcity in China of which we have just given an illustration.
These are the pilots of New York, greatest seaport in the world, with its tidy annual total of twenty-odd millions in tonnage entered and cleared, against fifteen millions for London.
Wonder of wonders, she is shooting the rapids, shooting the greatest cataract of the Nile, where boats of her tonnage never passed before!
Of this stupendous water mileage, more than one half is navigable by steam, employing an interior steam tonnage exceeding that of all the internal steam tonnage of the rest of the world.
At the close of this century our tonnage then, at this rate of increase, would far exceed that of all the rest of the world.
The parliament also granted the queen the duties of tonnage and poundage; but this concession was at that time regarded only as a matter of form, and she had levied these duties before they were voted by parliament.
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.
The large model of the artificial harbor of Colombo was of particular interest as illustrating the position of the city as the tenth port in the world for tonnage entering and clearing.
Our tonnage surpassed that of the greatest nations; the skill of our shipbuilders was unsurpassed; and the courage, industry, and perseverance of our seamen were renowned all over the world.
The permanent removal of this bar is, however, an object of national importance, which cannot but be felt, as the tonnage of the lakes increases.
In the matter of naval construction Italy and Japan, of the great powers, laid down less tonnage in the year 1899 than this country, and Italy alone has less tonnage under construction.
Tonnage and poundage were granted for life, and afterwards confirmed to James.
In striking contrast to the early Parliaments of his father, they at once gave him the tonnage and poundage for life.
The tonnage of Hubert's conscience appears to have been considerable, for though he carried a good cargo of peculation, he seems never to have evinced any disposition to sink under his burden.
He got it in the shape of tonnage and poundage upon all sorts of goods, and when money was not to be had he took property to the full value of the claim he had upon it.
Another and better test is the tonnage of minerals and goods conveyed on the railways of the United Kingdom for the like period.
Taking three tests: receipts from minerals and goods, tonnage conveyed and amount produced--it will be seen that the figures stated in Appendix II.
Additional contract placed for the construction of the parapet, crowning the Arcade of the Báb’s Mausoleum on Mount Carmel, raising the total tonnage ordered to almost eight hundred.
The tonnage is stated on the exhibit card to have been about 350 tons, old measurement.
Such bunkers would together hold about the required tonnage or cubic footage.
Sail navigation, we see, declines perceptibly, but in so far as it continues to exist, the tonnage of vessels increases, and the force of the crews decreases.
Rank code: 2120 Country Comparison :: Ports and terminals This entry lists major ports and terminals primarily on the basis of the amount of cargo tonnage shipped through the facilities on an annual basis.
DWT or dead weight tonnage is the total weight of cargo, plus bunkers, stores, etc.
Underwood's idea was to make the Erie a great freight-carrying system by developing its tonnage and its freight capacity in every way possible.
Sometimes they have been higher on the vessels of some foreign countries than on those of others, in which case they are known as discriminating tonnage duties.
Tonnage duties, as the name indicates, are a form of taxation calculated on the basis of the tonnage admeasurement of the vessel; they are levied on American as well as foreign ships, though the rate is higher on the latter than on the former.
The Tonnage Laws prescribe the rate oftonnage duties that shall be levied on vessels entering American ports.
As each state was anxious to exploit this source of revenue for itself, it naturally framed its tariff regulations and tonnage laws in such a way as to attract foreign commerce to its own ports.
And yet the range of the very oldest pattern of Stokes mortar was five times that of the flame projector, upon which material and time and labour and tonnage were being wasted.
Perhaps the most powerful arguments that could be brought forward against the offensive campaign that was initiated by General Smuts in German East Africa were its cost and the amount of ship-tonnage that it absorbed.
Our Italian allies were in sore straits over coal for munitions and transportation purposes, simply because sufficient tonnage could not be placed at their disposal.
To-day we have more than that number of splendid steel sailing-ships, each having a register tonnage in excess of three thousand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tonnage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
