The Mercantile Marine.
The United Kingdom is experiencing a boom in shipbuilding, the tonnage under construction at 'the close of the quarter ended June 30 being the highest on record. The returns, compiled by “Lloyd’s Register of Shipping,” show that, excluding warships, there were 495 vessels, of 1.470,394 tons gross, under construction in Britain on the date mentioned, being (12.1M19 tons more than the previous record total, which was reached in September, 1901. The figures for June, 1909—745,000 tons—have just been about doubled in tne last two years. The tonnage now under construction is about 102,000 tons more than that which was in hand at the end of last quarter, and exceeds by 355/100 tons the tonnage building in June, 1610. Britain’s great preeminence as a shipbuilding nation is still unassailcd, for the tonnage under construction on Jqne 30 was a littlp over twice as much ns that under construction in all the rest of the world put together.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 54
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159The Mercantile Marine. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 54
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