§ 79. Mr. GILBERTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller how many German mercantile ships have been surrendered or handed over to this country; and the total tonnage of all ships and the approximate number of each class of ships?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of SHIPPING (Colonel L. Wilson)The number of German merchant ships delivered for British management up to 9th May is as follows: Twenty-two passenger vessels of 168,800 gross tonnage, approximately; eighty-nine cargo vessels of 663,200 dead-weight, approximately.