LOST VESSELS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4521, 31 January 1923, Page 3

LOST VESSELS.

THREE MONTHS’ RECORD. ONE MINED. Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, front April 1 to June 20, 1922, states that the tothl of steam, motor, and sailing vessels lost in that period was 80, if 93,715 tonnage. The total comprised 63 steam and motor vessels olf; 75,876 tonnage, and 27 sailing vessels of 17,.839 tonnage. America ranked first in losses of sailing vessels, accounting for 14 out of the total, while in steam and motor vessels the United Kingdom occupied top place with 11 out of the total number recorded as wrecked. Japan lost, eight and America seven steam dr motor vessels in the three months.

Among the steamer,s lost was an auxiliary screw boat belonging to Poland named Lusitania 1., which was abandoned a.t sea with a cargo of pit wood bound for Barry. Seventeen if the vessels foundered, eight were re;' corded as missing, three were broken up, condemned, etc., 12. burned, four lost in collision, 31 described as “wrecked” through stranding, striking rocks, sunken vessels, etc., and the remaining two were simply put down as “lost.” One of the last-men-tioned was sunk by a mine trawled up in the North Sea. Thirty of the vessels (of 60,156 tons) were built of steel, seven (of 2981) of iron, and the remaining 43 (of 30,578 tons) of woods and composite.