SAFETY AT SEA
MARGIN IMPROVING THE LATEST STATISTICS. [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Dec. 28. The Chamber of Shipping has issued a statement on safety of life at sea. It is intended to reassure those who may hftve been misled by several distressing losses last year, which, claims that the statistics of losses of vessels and of loss of life show a steady improvement. Losses of ships have fallen steadily from one in 156 in the period 1920-22 to one in 242 in the period 1932-24.
The Chamber adds. “Of the world’s tonnage we own one-third, and of the world's losses we have suffered onequarter. 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 1910-14 one in 412. In the period 1922-1926 the average was one in 976; in 1927-31, one in 2250; and in 1932-1934, one in 23%0. ”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 306, 31 December 1935, Page 7
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