SHIPPING STATISTICS.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 66, 7 November 1844, Page 3

SHIPPING STATISTICS.

Some valuable statistical returns of sailing-vessels registered at each port of the United Kingdom (including the Isle of Man, &c.) in the year 1843 ; of vessels entered and cleared coastwise in 1843; of the number and tonnage of vessels registered at each of the ports of the colonies; and of vessels Built, registered, sold, wrecked, and broken up, during the same period, have been laid before the Lower House of Parliament, on the motion of Mr. J, T. Wawn, who represents the shipping interest in a portion of the north-eastern districts of England. We find the following statistics embodied in these returns, and take the earliest opportunity of laying them before the public : —ln England alone, the gross total number of sailing-vessels under 50 tons registered at various ports on the 31st December, 1843, amounted to 6,155, measuring altogether 185,832 tons. The number of sailing-vessels above 50 tons so registered on the 31st December last amounte 1 to 10,6 72, measuring altogether 2,019,414 tons. The total number of steam-vessels registered under 50 tons was 337—tonnage, 8,119: and the total number registered above 50 tons amounted to 309 tonnage, 03,923. In Scotland the gross total number of sailing vessels registered amounted to 3,549 (of which 1,216 were above 50 and the total number of steam vessels 188, of which 97 were above 50 tons* measurement. The 'gross total tonnage (including vessels of all sorts) amounted to 481,670. In Ireland, the number of sailing vessele registered amounted altogether to 1,921 (of which more than half were above 50 tons); and the number of steamers, 81 (of which 76 were above 50 tons). The gross total amount of tonnage was 198,469. The gross total numberofsailingvessels thatenentered inwards coastwise in 1843 amounted, in England, to 98,295; in Scotland, to 19,053 ; and in Ireland, to 16,476. The total number cleared outwards during the same period being, respectively, 108, 105, 19,'788, and 9,979. The total number of steam-vessels entered inwards, coastwise, amounted, in England, to 9,294; in Scotland, to 2,688 i and in Ireland, to 2,651. The number of steamers cleared outwards was, in England 8,992 ; in Scotland, 2,311; and in Ireland, 2,989. The gross total tonnage of all the vessels so entered inwards, coastwise,£in 1843 at I the various ports throughout "the united j kingdom, amounted to 12,532,307 ; and ' the gross total tonnage of all the vessels I cleared outwards coastwise during the same period, to 12,571,031, exhibiting the j very slight difference between the measure- ! ment of the inward and outward sailing vessels of only 88,724 tons. So muchforthe coasting trade of Great Britain andlreland. / Respecting the colonial, it' appears that' i the total number of British sailing vessels ' which entered inwards for the colonies at various ports of the United Kingdom during the year 1843 (including the re- . peated voyages) amounted to 6,404, whose i tonnage was altogether 1,405,054 ; and i that the total number cleared outwards : was 6,264, whose tonnage amounted to 1,427,233. The total number of foreign vessels entered inwards, and cleared out- i wards only amounted to 45 and 36, respectively. The total number of steamers entered inwards from our colonies in 1843 was 344 ; tonnage 72,477 ; and the total number cleared outwards for the colonies, 357 ; tonnage, 80,186. The total number of British sailing vessels entered inwards from foreign ports at all the ports of the United Kingdom and the Channel islands their repeated voyages) amounted to 11,263, tonnage 1,737,210 ; and the total number of British vessels cleared outwards for foreign ports during the same period amounted to 11,228, tonnage 1,791,755 ; the total number of foreign vessels simultaneously entered inwards and cleared outwards having been respectively 8,259 and 7,375. The number of British steamers so entered' inwards and cleared outwards was respectively 2,439 and 2,314 ; and the number of foreign steamers respectively, 533 and 548. The number of sailing vessels built and registered in 1843 in the ports of the United Kingdom amounted to 653, tonnage 77,034 ; and the number of steamers 45, tonnage 83,097. The total number of vessels wrecked, sold, and broken up in the same year amounted to 778, 1 tonnage 132,732. k