The engines instead of weighing about 17 tons each, as expected, will weigh upwards of 21 tons, and there is a corresponding increase in the weight of the vehicles.
Still later the single propeller steamers Excelsior and Chalmette, of about 2,400 tons each, were placed in the service of the Southern Pacific Line.
We took three fliboats of 300 tons each, laden with biscuit, one of which we set on fire, after taking out half her loading, and took the other two with us to sea.
The Lion and Rainbow of 500 tons each, with the same number of guns and men as the Bonaventure.
Next day the Portuguese were joined by four great caravels or armadas, three of which were not less than 100 tons each, the fourth being smaller, but all well armed and full of men.
From the above figures the following deductions may be drawn:— The locomotive worked an average of 4 days per week, hauling an average of 28 tons each day, and burning 1¾ cwts.
Various other vehicles; among which are a brake van, 6 wagons capable of carrying 1½ tons each, and 2 for 2 tons each.
They are built of steel plates and rolled shapes, four and a half feet thick and weighing 200 tons each.
Four shields have been installed, weighing 51 tons each.
The big wall culvert gates will weigh about 10 tons each, and must be capable of operating under a head of more than 60 feet of water.
The top of the breakwater is covered with huge stones weighing from 8 to 20 tons each, these to make sure that it will stand against the pounding of the waves.
Two vessels a day of 4,000 tons each, at the present charge, will render the canal self-supporting.
It was proposed that for the future there should be twenty boats of 150 tons each, and with a complement of eighteen men.
That establishment consisted of twenty-one boats of 200 tons each, and manned by thirty men.
If the vessels transporting it be of 1,000 tons each, it will employ something near thirty-five of these vessels at profitable rates, in this one item of their business alone.
They are all English built, iron vessels, of about 1,800 tons each.
Ten of these were of about 120 tons each, and were known by the odd name of the =Whelps=, numbered consecutively from one to ten.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tons each" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
