SHIPBUILDING DECLINE
PRE-WAR COMPARISON. BIG DROP IN BRITAIN. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Jan. 9. Lloyd's Register states that the shipbuilding returns show that the merchant' tonnage under construction in Britain at December 31 was 315 aggregating 1,468,599 gross 1 tonnage, including 348,000 tons on which work was suspended. Thus the total . actually being built was 1,120,000 tons, which was 770,000 tons below the average under construction during the 12 months immediately preceding the war. The total under construction in other countries ' was 1,485,719 tons, including 216,000 tons on which work was suspended. The tonnage actually being' bujlt in the world was 2,390,000 tons, which was 1,057,000 tons below the highest prewar record—reached on June 30, 1913. The world's launchings last quarter were 537,784 tons, of which 260,588 tons were launched '■ in Britain and Ireland, and 95,375 tons in Germany and Danzig.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18295, 11 January 1923, Page 7
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