The packets on the Harwich station, performing the service to and from the Continent, were much less in size, being of about 70 tons burthen.
The boat was 25 tons burthen, with an engine of about 3-horse power.
This ship was of 300 tons burthen, and in it we lost the main power of all our hopes.
She has since been in the Louisville trade, and has lately been sold to a company at Natchez; 390 tons burthen.
She ran between New Orleans and Natchez about two years, making her voyages to average seventeen days; was wrecked near Baton Rouge, where she sunk on the upward bound passage; 400 tons burthen.
Wooley, who lost her about twelve months after in Rock harbor at Shippingport; 45 tons burthen.
The little vessel which now constituted the whole strength of the Confederate navy, was a merchant screw-steamer of 501 tons burthen.
He is on board a miserable country craft, of about 40 tons burthen.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tons burthen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
