MERCANTILE LOSSES
A WEEK'S FIGURES
WELL BELOW THE AVERAGE
(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 16, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, October 15. Mercantile losses from enemy action in the week ended October 6-7 showed a further decline from the higher figures reached a fortnight previously, and were in fact a little more than half the average weekly loss of 57,000 tons during the previous 56 weeks of the war.
The losses for the week were seven British vessels totalling 24,943 tons gross and two Allied vessels totalling 2464 tons gross, together with one neutral vessel of 3687 tons, making in all ten vessels, totalling 31,094 tons.
The German claim for this particular week was 81,816 tons —nearly three times the actual tonnage.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 93, 16 October 1940, Page 9
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