MOTOR-SHIPS.
INCREASED TONNAGE. (by cable— tress association— copyright.) (australian and n.z. and sun cable.) LONDON, December 30. The year 1927 was a record, one for inotor-ship building, states the periodical, '' Motorship.'' Large vessels completed numbered 137, with a gross tonnage of 815,800, compared with 735,000 in 1926. Tonnage at present ordered amounts to 1,960,000, an increase of about 35 per cent.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19198, 3 January 1928, Page 16
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