The ships had a designed displacement of 45,950 metric tons; their standard displacement was 41,700 metric tons, and when fully laden, the ships displaced 50,300 metric tons.
The ship, laden with amphoras, the clay storage jars of antiquity, apparently sank in about the fourth century B.C., the golden age of the Greek city-states.
The ship was laden with so many overweight persons that it listed to one side at the entrance to the Panama Canal and damaged a much-needed stabilizer.
The ship was laden with munitions, crew and a few paying passengers, and its rescue has gone down in history as a catalogue of errors.
On the night of 24 February, the fully laden ship struck what was reported in The New York Times as either "an iceberg or a submerged wreck" off Cape Race.
Threats of another Pacific coast strike in late 1936 caused west coast shippers to squeeze as much cargo as possible into Minnesotan and other ships; when Minnesotan arrived at Boston in October, The Christian Science Monitor reported that the ship had arrived "literally laden to her Plimsoll line".
One of his greatest coups was the taking in 1592 of a treasure-laden Portuguese ship, the Madre de Dios.
The next day, the Times reported that the ingot was the "strongest evidence yet that the ship is a treasure-laden Spanish galleon from a fabled, ill-fortuned fleet that set sail from Havana in 1622".
According to Velmeskin, Dalny Vostok crew members told their rescuers that the heavily laden ship had begun leaning by 10 degrees to one side after pulling up a net full of fish.
At 11 50 it became clear that Alceste would soon catch the heavily laden French ships, and Maxwell sent the telegraph signal to Gordon; "Remember the battle of Lissa", the action of eight months before at which Hoste had raised the signal "Remember Nelson".
