MERCHANT SHIPPING
Additions To British
Tonnage (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 12. The Minister of Shipping, Mr. Cross, said in the House of Commons that at the end of October the total tonnage of foreign vessels of 500 tons gross and over which had been added to the British merchant, fleet by capture, requisition, or purchase was about 1,250,000 tons gross. The corresponding total of Allied and neutral vessels under time charter to Britain was approximately 4,000,000 tons. Mr. Cross added: "It should not be inferred that all the tonnage now ar our disposal represents an addition to our importing capacity, as much of the foreign tonnage traded to our ports before the outbreak of the war."
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 9
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