However, the gross and net register tonnages are still widely used in describing older ships.

Steinbauer also damaged three ships with a combined gross register tonnage of 16,967.

Gross register tonnage was defined by the Moorsom Commission in 1854.

Net registered tonnage is a ship's total cargo capacity, regardless of the cargo actually on board.

The sisters were planned with a gross register tonnage of approximately 40,000, and maximum passenger capacity of 1246 persons.

Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage.

Net Register Tonnage.

Tynwald had a registered tonnage of 696 GRT.

Wherever they go, whatever rocking motion there might be is minimal because of ships' stabilizers, gross registered tonnage (usually about 34,000 and up) and design.

U-14 completed six wartime patrols and sank nine ships totalling 12,344 Gross Register Tonnage.

In fact, after the Titanic's loss, Olympic was re-fitted and her gross registered tonnage was made slightly greater than Titanics had been.

One of the Convention's goals was to ensure that the new calculated tonnages "did not differ too greatly" from the traditional gross and net register tonnages.

Largest ferry in the world in terms of gross register tonnage, number of passengers carried and number of passenger berths (1977-1981).

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.

A total of one hundred and seventeen merchant ships, with a gross registered tonnage of just under one million tons, plus cargo of another million.'

With a Gross Register Tonnage of 1152 tons she was an ocean-going trawler and was employed in France's deep sea fishery.

All three boats had successes during World War I, between them, sinking five ships with a combined gross register tonnage (GRT) of 22,391.

Also, unlike the net register tonnage, the net tonnage is unitless and thus can not be defined as "tons" or "net tons".

Queen of the Isle was a carvel built wooden paddle steamer which had a registered tonnage of 350 GRT.

Gross register tonnage is not a measure of the ship's weight or displacement and should not be confused with terms such as deadweight tonnage or displacement.

The number of vessels to be permitted to fish in Mauretanian waters in future is significantly increased; and the permitted gross register tonnage is much more than doubled.

However, the new vessel was planned to be twice as large in terms of gross register tonnage as Aurella, and she was to have twice as many cabins.

Ships built before that date were given 12 years to migrate from their existing gross register tonnage (GRT) to use of GT and NT.

She had a Gross Register Tonnage of 5,360 tons and, after requisition, was armed with two six inch guns, one twelve pound gun and an anti-aircraft gun.