The 1920-21 edition of Lloyd's Register shows that nearly 27,750,000 tons of shipping are actually cleared or about to be classed by Lloyd's, and that the existing vessels which formerly, classed total about SjSoOjOOO tons. That the recognition of the value of classification is world-wide is sho#n. by the fact that of the 25,000,----000" tons of vessels actually appeai-in-as-classed in the new book, 14,000,000 tons ai*e of vessels 1 owned outside of Great Britain. Durine; the.year 1919 the new vessels classed by Lloyds' aggregated 4,283,000 ton's, of which, -nearly 2,200,000 were built' in the, "United States,.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9383, 3 December 1920, Page 5
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