BRITISH SHIPS
MANY VESSELS SCRAPPED. LONDON, Wednesday. Two million four hundred thousand tons of steamers and motor ships were broken up in 1933, the highest on record, making the aggregate 10,334,000 in the decade from 1924 to 1933, according to Lloyd’s new Register of Shipping. The decrease of 2,400,000 tons at 30th June, compared with 30th June, 1933, includes 2,700,000 tons of steamships and 74,000 tons of sailing vessels and non-propelled craft, which is offset by a 404,000 tons increase in motor tonnage. Russia, Greece and Finland show the most notable increases in the past V ear. Britain—nearly 1,000,000 tons—the Unit'd Stages, italy, France, Germany and Japan show the chief de-
cron sos. The tonnage of sailing vessels is 2,700,000 tons gross less than at June, 1914 The sailing vessel tonnage is now only 500,000 tons. There are still 11 of these vessels of about 3000 tons each.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 July 1934, Page 5
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