NEW TONNAGE LAST YEAR
34. G PER CENT. INCREASE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, sth February. ! New tonnage of vessels launched throughout the world in 1935 totalled 1,302,080. and exceeded the total of the previous year by 34.6 per cent. On Ist January of the current year work m hand in "British shipyards totalled 743,086 tons, which is the largest quarterly figure recorded for five years. The British total represented an increase on (lie previous year of 39,154 tons. Ate many new orders were placed in the latter part of 1935, there is every prospect that British yards will be fairly busy throughout the current year. Germany is now second on the list t.o Britain in ship-building production, followed by Japan, Denmark, and France.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 8 February 1936, Page 5
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