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

Her length of keel was only sixty feet; length of ship proper, ninety-three; and length over all, one hundred and twenty-eight.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry

Her length over all was 172 feet, her beam was 41, Page 88 and her draught only 10—less than half the draught of the Merrimac.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry

Her length of keel was 128 ft.; length over all, 167 ft.; beam, 48 ft.

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

Her dimensions being—35 feet in length over all, 7½ feet breadth of beam, and 3 feet depth of hold.

From Voyage of the Liberdade by Slocum, Joshua