§ 14. Sir Arnold Wilsonasked the President of the Board of Trade how many ships and of what tonnage have been built or are under construction, respectively, for British owners in foreign shipyards and in what countries?
Mr. StanleyThere are no official statistics of ships built or under construction for British owners in foreign shipyards, but the number of steam and motor vessels of 100 tons gross and over of recent foreign construction which have been registered in the United Kingdom since 1st January, 1935, is 76, totalling 180,810 tons gross. Of these, 46 vessels of 128,818 gross tons were built in Germany; 23 of 36,206 gross tons in Holland; four of 1,410 gross tons in Norway; two of 14,269 gross tons in Italy, and one of 107 gross tons in Yugoslavia.