SAILING VESSELS.
Ships.
No. of Times Entered.
Total Tonnage.
Flag.
1899. 1900. 1899. 1900,
1899.
1900.
British,
23
31
27
40
29,558
German,
5
3
9,241
Italian,
1
1
United States,
24
25
25
794 36,240
18,963 6,303 720
39,056
Danish,
895
French,
337
Japanese,
515
Norwegian,
1
315
Total......
53
66
58
78
75,833
97,104
455
6. The 363 British ships carried 2,667 British Officers and 15 Foreign Officers, as follows:-
British......
Danish
German
United States
Total...................
....2,667
8
.2,682
The proportion of Foreign Officers was, therefore, 0.55 %, comprising 3 nationalities--a decrease of 0.63% with an increase of ships.
The 346 Foreign Ships carried 2,291 Officers, of whom 274 were British, borne as follows:--
In Japanese
ships
Chinese
::
German
"
United States
1
Dutch
"
R
French
י
11
Russian
*
""
Portuguese
Total,....
133
60
39
19
8
6
6
..274
The proportion of British Officers in Foreign ships was, therefore, 11.9% distributed among 8 nationalities. A decrease of 3.7 % on 1899, with an increase of 55 ships.
Of the crews of British vessels-
18.4 % were British.
1.3% Other Europeans.
15
80.3%
Asiatics.
**
Of the crews of Foreign vessels--
1.8% were British.
28.9 %
69.3 %
Other Europeans. Asiatics.
This shows a slight falling off of Asiatics with a corresponding increase in the proportion of Europeans.
At the same time there is an increase in the percentage of "Other Europeans" employed in British ships, and a slight falling off of British seamen employed in Foreign vessels.