LATEST SINKINGS
LONDON, ' FebTruary\ 1. Latest sinkings of vessels > include the Norwegian Vessel Modi va and'the.Spanish Puntalpo. Tho steamer Clanshaw (3943 tons) struck a mine and went ashore. The vessel's back was broken, and she has become a total wreck, i (Received February 2, 11.10 a.m.) The Dutch steamer Ephilon (3211 j tons) has been sunk. LONDON, December 22. The Vossische Zeitung says that a lecture given recently before thel Institute of Nautical Science Captain Schroter, of Hamburg, describing the .present state of German mercantile shipping, «ftid! that since the war began 152 ships of 462,000 tons had been destroyed either by mine or torpedoes, arid 267 ships of 80,000 tons captured: by the enemy. In neutral harbors 621 merchant vessels, with a tonnage of 2,341,---000, are lying interned, and 490 steamers of 2,410,000 tons are still at home. These figures would mean that 7.16 pen- cent of the total German mercantile marine tonnage has been lost, 14.1 per cent, is m tbe hands of the enemy and 43 per cent, interned m neutral harbors.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14213, 2 February 1917, Page 3
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