Meanings of small tonnage in English

Open Hearth, Acid and Basic steel figured only as a relatively small tonnage.

First, the fur-traders' vessels were little discarded admiralty vessels of small tonnage and rickety construction.

Twenty-seven cruising ships, three of which are built of iron, of small tonnage, and twenty-four of wood.

Only six or seven vessels then belonged to the King, the largest being the Grace de Dieu, of comparatively small tonnage.

Five fourth-rate vessels of small tonnage, only one of which was designed as a war vessel, and all of which are auxiliary merely.

The harbour was an open roadstead, and possessed but a primitive sort of quay or landing place for boats and vessels of small tonnage.

An answer arrived from Lloyd's: the "Stars-and-Stripes" was an American vessel, probably of small tonnage and importance, was the under-writers knew nothing of it.

The change seeks to prevent the closing price of a metal being based on small tonnages, which could skew the level.

"Do you think, they would risk themselves in a boat of such small tonnage?"