GREAT BRITAIN'S SHIPPING
Forty-eight years'.progress in merchant shipping in the United Kingdom and the principal maritime countries is presented .by statistics in.a.Board of Trade Blue Book issued in August. Tho gigantic extent of Great Britain's maritime supremacy is shown in tho following comparisons-of tho tonnage of Britisli and foreign vessels entered and cleared in the years 1800. and 1908, the. latter being the latest year dealt, with :— : 1860.. 1908. . Increase. . . Tons. Tons. Tons.: British •... .13,014,923 77,809,772 03,954,849 Foreign ... 10,774,309 53,576,424 42,802,055 Tho proportion per cent, of British to total tonnage in 18G0 wa5.56.4, in 1908 it was ,59.2. The most importnnt of the British ports in order of tonnage are: London, with a tonnage entered of 11,194,073; Liverpool, with 7,973,123; Cardiff, 0,027,897; tho Tyne ports, 5,554,724,
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 926, 20 September 1910, Page 6
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126GREAT BRITAIN'S SHIPPING Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 926, 20 September 1910, Page 6
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