MINISTER’S TRIBUTE TO COASTAL SHIPPING
(British (Hllcial Wireless.} RUGBY, November 3. Discussing transport, problems in Britain, the Minister of War Transport, Lord Leathers, paid a tribute to coastwise whipping, perhaps the most outstanding fact about which was that alter three years of war. despite attacks from the air and by surface craft, submarines and Inines, we had a greater volume of such shipping than in peacetime. The coasters, be said, had helped to relieve the strain on the inland transport system. They had moved cargo and particularly 'hulik cargoes round Britain’s shores. British coasters had made some 25,000 voyages a year around the coasts, and this had involved already more than 100 coastal convoys and practically continuous work by all concerned
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 35, 5 November 1942, Page 5
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121MINISTER’S TRIBUTE TO COASTAL SHIPPING Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 35, 5 November 1942, Page 5
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