Detailed statistics are given in the summary as to the tonnage Jaunched in the principal shipbuilding countries. During 1919 there have been launched in the United Kingdom 612 merchant vessels of 1,620,442 tons (541 steamers of 1,584,920 tons and 71 barges 35,522 tons). Not a single sailing vessel has been launched during the year. The figures are still 311,711 tons below the record figures of 1913, and represent an output 1L2 per cent. lower than the average of the three pre-war years 1911- 13. They are, however, higher than the totals for the four years 1915-18, the present total being 272,322 tons and 457,546 tons larger than those for 1918 and 1917 respectively. It appears that 197 vessels between 5,000 and 6,000 tons each, and 62 vessels of 6,000 tons and _upwards were launched in 1919. Only four of more than 10,000 tons each are included in the latter total. The largest ship of the year constructed in a British yard is the Arundel Castle, of 22,150 tons, which was launched at Belfast for the Union Castle Line.
The Glasgow district occupies first place amongst the shipbuilding centres of the country, showing output of 337,030 tons. Then follow Sunderland (274,283 tons), Newcastle (239,836 tons), Belfast (213,720 tons), Gieenock (188,717 tons), Middlesbrough (119,943 tons), and West Hartlepool (82,233
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