The ded in the shipbuilding unde is she clearly in the returns issued by Lloyd's Resiste ipping" for the first quarter of the year. The total shi ing under construction in the Unit dom on March cluding warship year there were under constraction 431 vessels, of 1,240,- SHE gress tons, Te will he noticed. that the number of vessels is not greatly dirler ent in the two eases, and that consequently me rust [of has been in er of 19 ing vessels Tu the first of these agai ated 15 tons This had not ial been antici The nimber of sailing ships unde ion is neatly AN percent greater nut the tonnage is por cent. Tu steamers the marked, the The diminution of wale is by evenly distributed among the 6 in Maryport, and Working li. At Belfast construction 1 vessels, nis. against 11 of 178088 tons 102, Tr will he seem that wot chip at Belfast is nearly: At Barrow the total has risen toms. and the vessels from The ase in the size ut mercantile noticeable fe There sels M1) tons and alive, tiv 12,000 16 15,000 tons, six 100 ty 1 00 tons. three ut 000
Wi) ro OHO tons, sand The 1,000 and 2.000 tons, there being fifty-nine that size under eonstrnetion, All the distviets of the kingdom have felt the Greenock, tons at Hartlepool and) Whitby 4.204 fo S058 tens at Neweastle, and from Td8.639 to Sunderland.
all the rest of the world the of vessels under constrneti:
warships, in the early part of the year was about 720000 tons, <0 that we are still no nly the largest shipbuilders, but we {de more work than all the rest of the world combined. Net only are we the greatest builders, Me we are also the greatest users. At the end of the quarter we were building for om selves and eir Colonies 794,000 tons of shipping. against the 720,000 tons the rest.of the world was building for itself, Iding 181,000 tons for as that the islands have been known to shake, foreign or unknown owners. Tf we built ay slawly as soe foreign nations, these figures
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