SHIPPING LOSSES
NEW METHOD OF PUBLICATION. (Australian and N.Z. and Router.) Received April 25, 9.50 a.m. LONDON, April 24. The Admiralty announces the discontinuance of the weekly shipping returns, substituting therefor information of the gross lost, also the tonnage of sailings to and from the United Kingdom. These will be issued monthly and published on the 21st of eacli month. Approximately the tables of merchant tonnage lost from all causes last month show a British total of 210,000 tons, and a combined allies and neutral total of 166,000 tons. In the first quarter of 1918 the aggregate loss was 1,12 i,OOO tons, of which the British amounted to GBB.OOO tons and others to 436,000 tons, Last quarter's total was the lowest recorded. The highest aggregate was in the second quarter of last year, when the British losses were 1,302,000 tons and others 875,000 tons. The highest month's losses were in April last year, when the British were 555,000 tons and others 339.000 tons.
The .Ministry of Shipping announces that the tonnage of steamships exceeding 5000 gross tons to and from the United Kingdom, but excluding coastwise and cross-Channel traffic, was in March 7,296,000 tons, which was the highest since October of last year, when 0,900,000 tons were entered and cleared.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13750, 25 April 1918, Page 5
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