SHIPPING OUTLOOK IN BRITAIN
NATIONAL EFFORT URGED
DANGER OF BEING LEFT BEHIND
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. July 22, 9.45 p.m.) London, July 22. Mr. Archibald Hurd, the naval writer, in an article in the "Daily Telegraph," says that 2,524,050 tons of shipping are now being built in Britain, a gratifying increase of 209,000 tons on the March quarter. The shipowners are showing fine enterprise, but it is regrettable that the' coal strikes are crippling their attempts to recover the losses of the war. Ships are Britain's greatest need. America has scoured the cream of Germany's passenger liners, and now possesses 1,000,000 tons more than she did in 1914. Japan also has increased her merchant fleet 25 per cent. Both those countries are still building at their maximum rate of output. "A British national effort is imperative, because we have lost our shipping supremacy since 1911. America is now building 991 vessels _ of • a gross tonnage of.. 3,874,143; Britain, 782 vessels, of a gross tonnage of 2,524,050; the British Dominions, 209 vessels, with a tonnage of 346,453; Japan, 63 vessels of a total tonnage of 282,060.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 255, 23 July 1919, Page 7
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185SHIPPING OUTLOOK IN BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 255, 23 July 1919, Page 7
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