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APPENDIX III.
Mercantile Losses: British, Allied and Neutral, to Noon,
Wednesday, March 6, 1940.
British.
By Submarine
Mine
Raider
****
Aircraft
Allied.
By Submarine
Mine
....
No.
Tonnage.
79
347,022
54
200,017
10
55,133
20
25,899
163
628,071
11
59,858
4
11,456
15
71,314
Neutral.
By Submarine
78
Mine
63
Raider
Aircraft
Mine or Torpedo
∞3182
243,868
184,323
1,918
5
4,324
6,645
149
441,078
Summarised the totals are :—
By Submarine
168
650,748
Mine
121
395,796
Raider
11
57,051
Aircraft
25
30,223
Mine or Torpedo
2
6,645
327
1,140,463
The average rate of sinkings per week for the 26 weeks to midnight Sunday/Monday, 3rd/4th March, is approximately 13 ships, totalling 44,000 tons, as compared with approximately 104 ships and 206,000 tons per week in April
1917.
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