HC Deb 05 December 1939 vol 355 c482W
Mr. Benjamin Smith

asked the Minister of Shipping what was the amount of neutral tonnage purchased or chartered by this country in 1917 till the end of the war?

Sir J. Gilmour

The total amount of tonnage under neutral flags in the service of the Allies at the Armistice appears to have been about 1.25 million gross tons. In addition, some 600,000 gross tons of neutral vessels sailed under Allied flags and was treated as Allied tonnage.