OUR MERCANTILE FLEET
OVER TWO MILLION TONS OF NEW SHIPPING BEING BUILT.
The output of new merchant tonnago in this country j says the annual report of Lloyd's Register of Shipping; is far below -the output of normal times, though recently there lias been some improvement. But notwithstanding this fact, there is now being built under Lloyd's survey "a larger amount of shipping than has ever been recorded in the history of tho society—namely, 620 vessels of 2.282,709 tons. Vessels 'already on the register in June this year showed 6106 Britishowned craft of .13,563,177 tons, and 392G craft of 9,626,961 tons owned by other countries. Of tho new tonnago added to tho register, 414,462 tons, per cent, was built for tho British Umpire, and of this tho United Kingdom took nearly all. American shipbuilding yards have grown wonderfully, necessitating tho formation of an American committee of Lloyd's Register. Owing to the abnormal demand for steel, the past year has witnessed a revival of wood shipbuilding in. America. Some of these ships are over 300 feet long. Steel reinforcements are introduced into the larger vessols to strengthen tho structure.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2972, 9 January 1917, Page 8
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188OUR MERCANTILE FLEET Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2972, 9 January 1917, Page 8
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