She was indeed a very formidable opponent, nevertheless we did our best, and, blazing away at close quarters, soon succeeded in silencing the starboard 13-tonner nearest us.
I turn from the voyages to the yachts in which they were performed, observing that no later possession filled its owner with more pride than was felt in the smart little 8-tonner which heads the list.
But the proportionate beaminess of the 'Falcon' is not necessary for the bigger craft, and the beam of our 50-tonner should be about a quarter of her length.
In a 5-tonner a man and a boy could have shortened sail easily, and though the sail-area was great, one man and the owner could always sail her from port to port.
Mr. Payton's name will always be associated more especially with the 3-tonner 'Currytush.
In the case of a 5-tonner the difference in price between the purchase money of vessels owned by the two men might be from 50l.
All the problems which task the intelligence and knowledge of the captain of a thousand-tonner during the various contingencies of its nautical manoeuvres have to be dealt with by him with equal promptness and precision.
I tried a centreboard in the 4-tonner 'Swan,' but discarded it after one season.
But the most important result of our researches was the universal opinion that a sound 90 tonner was to be got at our price.
Nothing remained but to choose our particular 90 tonner with a good character.
Do you think we could get a sound 90 tonnerfor two hundred pounds, because that's the size we've practically decided on?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tonner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
