SWEDEN’S LOSSES IN SHIPS

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23968, 8 June 1943, Page 6

SWEDEN’S LOSSES IN SHIPS

190 SUNK SINCE WAR BEGAN STOCKHOLM, April 3C. According to statistics recently published, the Swedish merchant marine decreased by 30 vessels of 83,000 gross tons to 2090 vessels of 1,382.000 gross tons'during 1942. In 1941 the decrease totalled 82 vessels of 54,000 gross tons. From the outbreak of the war up to the end of 1942. the Swedish fleet had been reduced by 162 vessels, aggregating 235,000 gross tons The number of Swedish vessels lost through actions of war during 1942 totalled 43, of 147,000 gross tons as compared with 33 vessels of about 106,000 gross tons during the preceding year, bringing the total Swedish war losses up to 190 vessels of 491,000 gross tons, nine of which were fishing boats Ships lost in other ways than through warlike action numbered nine, while 20 vessels, among them the liner Kungsholm, were sold to foreign owners and 11 removed from the register for other reasons. In January this year the Swedish merchant marine suffered heavier losses than during any earlier month during the war. No fewer than eight ships of nearly 40,000 tons were lost during that month, the greater part of the tonnage, or 23,150 tons, being represented by the two Swedish safeconduct vessels Sveajarl and Brasil, which were mined off the Norwegian coast when outward bound. Forty-four persons went down with these two vessels.

Reservist Now Overseas.—ln connexion with an appeal by C. E. Mason for Edward George Adolphus Mason, farm hand, which was heard by the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board on June 3, it is now stated by the board that the appeal was brought up for formal dismissal because E. G. A. Mason is at present serving overseas.