Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-12-11 | Page 10 | British Shipbuilding

BRITISH SHIPBUILDING Lloyds Lloyd's Register tables the British shipbuilding for the fiscal year ending June 30 1907 During the year rear new ve vessels sels were classed by the committee of Lloyds Lloyd's Register Their registered gross tonnage amounted to ton Of these vessels 74 of 01 tons here were steamers and only forty tw of f I tons were sailing ships Of all these 70 per pel percent Percent cent were built huilt for fr the United Kingdom and und 30 Percent per percent percent cent for foreign countries and the British colonies The rhe return represents the greatest amount of oi tonnage tonnage tonnage ton ton- nage registered in any single year and an increase of 74 per cent ov over r ten years ago Great Britain subsidizes her steamers and s makes work for them on all the seas Our country is content to her P pay av ships ship t for freights and passage yearly Eng Elg land does not have pan panics cs an and can afford to lend our country when it has one