SHIPPING LOSSES
ALLIED AND NEUTRAL FIGURES PARTICULARS FOR WAR PERIOD. CAPTURES FROM THE ENEMY. Ey Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.45 a.m.) LONDON. March 5. It is officially announced that in addition to the two British ships lost last week, one allied vessel, namely the PLM (5391 tons) and five neutral vessels totalling 13.954 tons, were sunk. The total losses during the week were therefore Might, totalling 21.231 tons, which was less than half the weekly average since the outbreak of war. The sunken neutrals were the Vestfos, 1.388 tons, and the Italian ship Maria Rose, which was not listed at Lloyds, in addition to the Mirella. Lagaholm and Elziena. Britain’s losses during the war are 620.000 tons, of which over two-thirds have been replaced by now construction and captures from the enemy. German's losses from captures, sinkings and scuttlings total 271.000 tons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 6
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143SHIPPING LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 6
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