SHIPPING LOSSES.
MERCANTILE FIGURES
(British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9.10 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 17. Mercantile shipping losses due to enemy action in the week ending September 8-9 were:— Vessels Tons British 19 18499 Allied - ... | Neutral 2 ' B4S The figure for the losses of British tonnage does not include the tonnage which may prove to have been sunk by air attacks on Septembei ', o, and 9 full details of which are not yet available. Subject to this proviso the tonnage lost during the week fell to a little more than the average foi the previous 52 weeks, namely, 53,900 tons, and the British tonnage lost to below the average for the same period of 30,i00 tons. The German claims of merchant shipping sunk between midnight on September 1-2 and midnight on September 8-9 total 188,500 tons.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19400918.2.40
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 7
Word Count
134SHIPPING LOSSES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 249, 18 September 1940, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. 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 Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in