length over all

American  

noun

1. Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.

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Example Sentences

Dockage fees run $120 per linear foot in the summer, $105 in the winter, and Ms. Clegg’s schooner is 39 feet length over all.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2016

This ship has a length over all of 907 feet.

From L.P.M. : the end of the Great War by Barney, J. Stewart (John Stewart)

Her displacement is 31,400 tons, her length over all 600 feet, her maximum breadth 97 feet, and her draft under normal conditions 28 feet, 10 inches.

From Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School by Miller, Edwin L.

In general shape it is long and narrow, the length over all being twenty-one miles.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir

Two of them were of identical dimensions, viz. length of keel, 49½ ft.; length over all, 75 ft.; beam, 10 ft.

From Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships by Holmes, George C. V.