THE WORLD’S SHIPS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2013, 9 August 1919, Page 3

THE WORLD’S SHIPS.

UP-TO-DATE FIGURES. EFFECT OF WAR LOSSES AND BUILDING. London, Aug. 6. Lloyd’s Shipping Register, the first uncensored issue since the war began, shows that in 1919 the United Kingdom ownes 34 per cent., and the United States 25 per cent., of the world’s tonnage, as compared with 41.6 and 4.46 per cent, respectively in 1914. The tonnage of the United States has increased by 6,729,000, as compared with a decrease of 5,003,000 in the case of the United Kingdom. Lloyd’s Register estimates that if there had been no war, the world’s tonnage would have increased by 9.966.000 tons, making the total loss, excluding America, due to the wax 14,202,000, but America, as a result of the wmr, built 6,729,000 tons over the normal increase. Hence the net loss was 7,473,000 tons. If allowance is made for the loss of efficiency in construction and the retention of old ships beyond their normal efficiency, the not loss is 8,500,000, equivalent to 12.500.000 dead-weight tons. The following table shows the tonnage figures for the pre-war and post-war dates ■ Julv, Jane, 191.4. 1919. World’s steam 45,404,000 47,897,000 World’s sail 3,680,000 3,022,000 British steam 18,892,000 16,345,000 Dominion’s steam 1,632 1,863,000 United Stales’ total 2.027,000 9,773,000 Japan’s 4 total 1,708,000 2,325;000 Germany had 5,125,000 steam tons and 324,000 sailing tons at the date of the Armistice. At the Armistice the Austrians had 1,052,000 steam tons and 713,000 sailing tons. The enemy vessels taken over since the Armistice totalled 1,750,000 tons. The world’s war losses totalled 7.473,000 tons, and Britain’s abofit 5,000,000 tons.