Sentence examples for board tonnes from inspiring English sources
On board are 2.5 tonnes of food, water, fuel and other supplies for the ISS crew.
It's actually carbon positive: in one tonne of board there's enough carbon to make 1.2 tonnes of CO2, 'but it's taking carbon out of the cycle by locking it up', says Nickell. 'It's what trees do.' Then there's the wool insulation in the walls and ceiling.
When the ship went down, it had a 142-strong crew on board and around four tonnes of silver and gold loot.
Tuna purse-seiners vary in length between about 30 to 115 meters, and can pack on board up to 4 000 tonnes of frozen fish.
The Seals boarded the 21,000-tonne tanker using helicopters and fast boats from a warship, the USS Roosevelt.
In dramatic scenes 120km off the west coast of Greenland, Naidoo and another activist boarded the 52,000 tonne Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible rig, chartered by Scottish oil company Cairn Energy, around 6.45am on Friday.
All four are said to have boarded the 71,000-tonne vessel in Lagos, Nigeria, on 10 December that was heading for Tilbury in Essex.
There's 600 tonnes still on board the vessel.
On board HMS Illustrious is 500 tonnes of aid, most of it bought in a frenetic three-day shopping spree in Singapore.
On board, police found more than two tonnes of drying shark fins and 80 critically endangered Hawksbill turtles bound for the Philippines.
