Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-13 | Page 2 | British Tonnage Shows Decrease

BRITISH TONNAGE SHOWS DECREASE Output of Mercantile Vessels Drops Government Building Build-ing Sole Work of Yards. London, Jan. 1. (Correspondence of the Associateo Press I. Although it is not possible to giVe the figures of the total tonnage of ships launched at the various yards of Great Britain during the year PJ14, owing to the stipulation of the admiralty that no details of warships shall appear in the returns, figures available for mercantile mercan-tile ship building, indicate that the ' amount of such tonnage launched Is I about 1,740,000 or some 200,000 tons I less than lu 1918 Several yards on the post coast where no government building is car rled on, show a decrease collectively of about 100.000 tons in the output of mercantile vessels. On the other band several yards usually associated only with mercantile building have been engaged solely on government work, creating the belief that if government gov-ernment tonnage could be included the figures for the year would create a record "The great yard of Harland and Wolff where the "Brittanic" of 60,000 tons; the "Statendam" of 33,000 tons and the "Belgenland" of 27,000 tons, have been launched this year, head the ll6t of new mercantile shipping put on the water, the next largest being a Tyneslde firm with about 83. -000 tons.