One register ton is equivalent to 100 cubic feet of cargo space.

In the past it has been used for a cargo ship but the register ton is now preferred.

The largest steam flatirons were more than 1,550 gross register tons.

The overall size of the vessel was 40 gross tons and 23 registered tons.

At 229 gross registered tons she is the largest active tall ship on the West Coast.

Register Ton - A measurement of cargo carrying capacity in cubic feet.

The current English merchant tonnage can safely be assumed to be in the order of 20 million gross register tons.

She had an original tonnage of 526 GRT but this was later increased to 562 gross registered tons.

Navigazione Generale Italiana decided to build two new liners of over 30,000 gross registered tons for post war service.

The 3,409-gross register ton British steamer was carrying a general cargo from Glasgow for Alexandria when she went down with the loss of three men.

No longer than 300 feet in length and weighing no more than 4,000 gross registered tons, these yacht-like vessels accommodated 114 passengers.

Two British ships totalling 5286 Gross Register Tons were sunk by this minefield.

The students wanted to know how many Spitfires you had to shoot down, how many gross register tons you had to sink.

She was built to carry 1,600 registered tons' burden, several hundred tons of freight capacity greater than any other vessel then being built for the California trade.

All shipping losses are in Gross Registered Tons (GRT).

They sank 16 merchants in a six hour period, bringing the total to twenty merchants sunk and a total tonnage lost of 79,592 Gross registered tons.

Based on the results of the research, the company decided to order a 20,000 gross register ton combined ocean liner / cruise ship that could accommodate 802 passengers.

The company were looking for a site which could be made accessible at all states of the tide to vessels of up to 6,000 gross registered tons (grt).

In the first twenty days we sank 105 ships totalling over half a million gross register tons, equivalent to half the new British construction for an entire year.

In most cases, the rate charged is based on the net registered tonnage of the vessel; the current charge is 41 pence per net registered ton.

Merchant ships are rated in register tons, a measure of volume of the ship's payload capacity; this system is used for setting canal tolls and insurance rates.

The GLCC had a fleet of seventeen coastal colliers ranging from 1,200 to 2,841 gross register tons, and also chartered larger ships as needed.

The basic units of measure are the Register Ton, equivalent to 100 cubic feet, and the Measurement Ton, equivalent to 40 cubic feet.

The British were unaware of the minefield's existence and lost seven ships totaling 25,825 Gross Register Tons (GRT).