§ Commander SOUTHBYasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the total tonnage of vessels of the British Empire Navy, excluding trawlers, scrapped and not replaced between 11th November, 1918, and 1st June, 1931?
Mr. ALEXANDERThe total tonnage of vessels, other than trawlers and such small craft, scrapped without replacement is 2,020,195 tons for the naval forces of all the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Vessels building at the time of the Armistice, a very large number of which were cancelled, have not been included in this calculation.