THE NAVY’S WORK.
THF, CONVOY SYSTEM. j (Kocoivod this day at 0.25 a.m.) j LONDON, Nov. 4. j From the 4th to 26th October, the Admiralty convoyed 75,722 merchantmen, of which 433 were lost, or .51%. Atlantic convoys from June 26th, 1917. to October sth, 1918, comprised 14,968 ships of ft gross tonnage of 77,057,231, of which 118 were lost, whose tonnage was 65,428. To Cfti'rv the. 1918 Argentine wheat crop, 307 ships of a tonnage, of 1 466,C00 were convoyed, of which only one was lost. ' . , Altogether 26,000,000 tons of food, and 35,000,000 tons of munitions were convoyed to the United Kingdom; whereas prior to the convoy system we lost 10'% of the ships. Tile present rate of loss is approxi- , mately 1% • . .'fhe relative risk of loss to and from the United Kingdom for three-quarters of 1918 shows n most satisfactory reduction. The total traffic! for that period increased by one-third while the risk of loss decreased by one-half. The success of the convoy system v as largely clue to the way that merennti c shipmasters co-operated. Their shil in keeping their stations in had weather and under attack was splendid.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19181105.2.28
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1918, Page 3
Word Count
193THE NAVY’S WORK. Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1918, Page 3
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in