thirty-ton

Incidentally, he had ideas about coral-reefs, disagreed profoundly with Darwin on that subject, had voiced his opinion in several monographs and one book, and was now back at his hobby, cruising the South Seas in a tiny, thirty-ton yacht and studying reef-formations.

Bunches of Knuckles 2010

Boyd and Minnie Duncan are sailing their thirty-ton yacht Samoset, a former trading schooner he bought in San Francisco, in the South Seas, three days out of Attu-Attu, and she is preparing a Christmas meal for them.

“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008

Looking through the windshield, Jack saw Hovarth holding the thirty-ton tower spire by himself.

Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation Matt Myklusch 2010

One nice thing about cruising in a thirty-ton vehicle spawned from military technology was its rhino hull's resistance to bullets.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

It included three large ships disassembled into sections, transported overland, and rebuilt on the lake; twenty gunboats; a thirty-ton gondola; a great two-masted scow; thirty longboats; and four hundred bateaux.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

It included three large ships disassembled into sections, transported overland, and rebuilt on the lake; twenty gunboats; a thirty-ton gondola; a great two-masted scow; thirty longboats; and four hundred bateaux.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

The blue-shirted deck crewmen were beginning to break the Tomcat down, removing the chains and chocks that secured the thirty-ton aircraft to its place on the flight deck.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

During launch operations, the steel-on-steel clatter of chains and cat shuttles just overhead, the tooth-rattling whump of steam catapults hurling thirty-ton aircraft off the carrier's bow, made sleeping or even simple conversation a chancy proposition at best.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

Carefully, he let up the brakes and followed, threading the thirty-ton aircraft past Slider's and Blue Grass's fallen, nose-down F-14 and toward the bow catapults.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

Gently, Batman eased his thirty-ton charger forward, maneuvering toward the catapults.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994