TOLL OF SHIPPING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24423, 8 October 1940, Page 7

TOLL OF SHIPPING

LOSSES DURING WAR The latest summary of shipping losses from the outbreak of the war till September 27, published by the Sydney Daily Commercial News and Shipping List, indicates that British losses amount to 348 vessels totalling over 1,500,000 tons. The British losses, however, have been, more than offset by gains. German merchant losses are next on the list, 72 vessels being accounted for, totalling 398.887 tons. , The following table gives a summary of the losses announced up till September 27:

The latest Admiralty announcement reveals that total. German losses to September, 22—sinkings, scuttlings and captures—amounted to 1,043,000 tons. Italian losses to the same date are officially stated to be approximately 291,000 tons. About 33,000 tons of formerly neutral and now enemy-controlled ships were also sunk.

Argentina Ships . : 1 Gross tonnage. 3,425 Belgian ... 6 14,058 British 348 1,562,358 Danish .. 27 64,109 Dutch . 27 91,739 Estonian 7 0.694 Finnish .. 10 21,713 French .. 17. 74^486 German .. 72 398,887 Greek 17, 73.345 Italian 37 244,000 Japanese 1 11,930 Latvian .. . . 2 8,153 Lithuanian 3 4.073 Norwegian ' 55 136,738 Panamanian 1 757 Polish , , 1 14,294 Rumanian , , 1 6,394 Russian .. , , 1 968 Spanish .. 1 2,140 Swedish .. 35 76.617 Jugoslavian 2 10,883 Allied (unnamed) 54 206,020 Neutral (unnamed) 43 121,591 ' Totals , , 769 3,133,513