MARITIME POWER
BRITAIN AGAIN LEADS WORLD <Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. January 21Britain has regained her position as world’s leading maritime nanon, f igures published by Lloyd s show that she has more ships afloat than *ny other nation. The United States?. which became the leading sea power during the war, •ml has a greater gross tonnage—-ft-245,000. compared . with Britain s 18.624,000-—but an estimated 12.500,000 tone of this is laid up in a reserve fleet-1
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26945, 22 January 1953, Page 7
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74MARITIME POWER Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26945, 22 January 1953, Page 7
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