WORLD’S SHIPBUILDING
MOTOR-SHIPS AND TANKERS REMARKABLEDEVELOPMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 18. Lloyd’s Register annual summary of the world’s shipbuilding for 1926 shows that GOO vessels of a tonnage of 1,674,000 were launched in the world during the year. Jn Great Britain and Ireland the tonnage launched was 639,000. The decrease for the world, compared with 1925, was 518,000 tons, and the decrease in Great Britain and Ireland 445,000 tons. Compared with the record year of 1919, the decrease in the world was nearly 5,500,000 tons. Launchings in the world for the year included 22 vessels of a tonnage of oyer 10,000 and eight of a tonnage of 15,000. The largest vessel was the turbine-liner lie de France of 43,000. The tonnage afloat in June, 1926, was 59,117,000, compared with 42,514,000 in June, 1914. The. tonnage of tankers is now 5,665,000, compared with 1,479,000 in 1914, and motor-ships 3,500,000, compared with 234,000, while the tonnage of steamers fitted for oil fuel is 18,250,000, compared with 1,310,000 tons.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12659, 20 January 1927, Page 12
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169WORLD’S SHIPBUILDING New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12659, 20 January 1927, Page 12
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