BRITISH SHIPBUILDING.
GREAT EXPANSION. The report -of “Lloyd’s Register” for 1919 shows a most encouraging expansion, in the output of British shipbuilding yards. At the beginning of the y-ear close upon 2,000,000 tons wei'e under construction in the United Kingdom. By the end of March there was an increase of 275,000 tons; at the end of June 269,000 tons, and at the end of September 295,000 tons. When the end of the year was reached the total had risen to the enormous figure, of close on 5,000,000 tons, so thatthe tonnage under construction at the beginning of 1920 was over 1,000,000 tons in advance of the figure for a y-ear earlier. The record figure before the -%ar was. just over 2,000,000 tons, in March, 1913. There are now under construction no fewer than 55 vessels of over 10,000 tons, and 22 of these are of 15,000 tons and over. The largest oil-engined British vessel launched during 1919 was 6980 tons.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 141002, 21 April 1920, Page 5
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