SHIPBUILDING IN BRITAIN.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20171, 25 February 1931, Page 16

SHIPBUILDING IN BRITAIN.

A BIG DECLINKSH (noic oub m coxasavoM«Md^|^H LONDON, Returns of shipbuilding for cember quarter show that Britain and Ireland there crease of 207,844 tons in the 'tni999H hand, compared with the September; The totalwas 651,352 tons less than the toßajuwHl being built; at the end of DoceaMnßl 1929. This decrease "is* the recorded during twelve the exception of 1922, affected by the completion of building programme occasioned The tonnage now' under rifflntiwjMßo abroad: —1,417,184 tons—is oqlf"uH| 35,000 tons less than the hand at the end of September, .ifflH Five countries abroad have moTettiiEffi 150,000 tons' under construrtion, United States ... - Germany ... .... 218,illCr^^H France" ... 174^215-^^B| Holland 160^mH The total tonnage under tion in the- world amounts to'9B|H| 08G ,tons, of which 39.1 per caimH building in Great Britain .aqd and 60.9 per cent, abroad. TMISMHH age percentages in the last' months -before the war Great Britain and Ireland* In./' Great Britain and tons were clino of- about 29.000 tonssimilar figures for the - quarter; and 296,843 .. launched —a decrease of- about;'B9w|H| tons. Similar figures for abrptiSEM 288,666 tons commenced tons launched. '

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