British Shipbuilding Activity
40.4 PER CENT. OF WORLD’S TOTAL LAUNCHED. (British Official Wireless.) Received Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 3. Lloyd’s Register of Shipping states that the tonnage laid down during 1936 oxceeded by 622,000 tons that launched during the year and there is therefore good reason to expect that the renewed activity in shipbuilding will bo maintained in the immediate future. The total tonnage building rose during the course of last \eur from 1,543,153 to 2,251,221 tons at December 31. The tonnage launched last year throughout the world was 2,117,924 gross tons. Of this British yards put afloat 856,257 tons or 40.4 per cent, ot the aggregate. World tonnage launched in 1936 showed a 62.7 per cent, increase on the output for 1935.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 6
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124British Shipbuilding Activity Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 6
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