BRITISH SHIPPING
LLOYD'S ANNUAL REVIEAV (Eec. October 28, 10.15 p.m.) London, October 2G. Lloyd's annual review of shipping states that at the end of June there was the largest tonnage building ever recorded, amounting In -l,7li(i,K;i tons, of which 2,033,319 'was being built in the United Kingdom. Lloyd's classified 1151 vessels, totalling 3,801,221 tons, during 1918-19, of which the United States constructed WO vessels, totalling 1,883,759 tons, and the United Kingdom 579, totalling, 1,285,036; Japan, 70, totalling 355,30-t; Caiiada. Sv '.dialling 199,911. Only twenty ferro-eoncrcto vessels were classified. Lloyd's appointed a research committee to test the suggestion thali fluid cargo makes a ship sluggish, and also to test a. ship in which the plates are electrically welded, instead of being riveted.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 29, 29 October 1919, Page 7
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123BRITISH SHIPPING Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 29, 29 October 1919, Page 7
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