SAFETY AT SEA
IMPROVING CONDITIONS LOSS OF LIFE DECREASES BRITISH SHIPPING TRADE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 12.10 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 28. The Chamber of Shipping lias issued a statement on the safety of life at sea intended to reassure those who may have been misled by several distressing losses last year. The Chamber claims that the statistics of the losses of vessels and of loss of life shows a steady improvement. The losses of ships has fallen steadily from one in 156. in the period 1920 to 1922 to one in 1342 in the period 1932-34.
The Chamber adds: ‘‘Of the world’s tonnage, we own one third and of the world’s losses we suffered one quarter. The loss of life has declined still more strikingly, compared with the number employed. The loss of life among officers and seamen averaged in the period 1910 to 1914, one in 412. In the period 1922 to 1926, the average was one in 976; in the period 1927 to 1931 it was one in 2250, and in the period 1932 to 1934, it was one in 2360.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18900, 30 December 1935, Page 5
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