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The 336 British vessels carried 3,592 British Officers and 14 Foreign Officers, the latter consisting of 11 U.S.A., 2 Norwegians and 1 Dutch. Thus the proportion of Foreign Officers serving in British vessels was 0.42% comprising 3 Nationalities. A decrease of 0.01% with a decrease in number of Officers and ships.
The 368 Foreign vessels carried 2,576 Officers of whom 125 were British as follows:-
1909 1908 In Chinese vessels 72 69 Dutch 2 13 French 31 ?? Japanese 3 3 United States vessels 46 54 4 13 125 141Thus 4.8% of the Officers serving in Foreign vessels were of British Nationality, a decrease of 0.5% with a decrease in number of ships and Officers.
The Nationality of the Crews in British and Foreign vessels was as follows:-
VESSELS BRITISH CREWS U.S.A. AND EUROPEANS ASIATICS 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 1909 1908 British 365 356 23,755 24,158 417 281 118,278 123,132 Foreign 380 369 1,536 1,336 27,446 26,955 109,818 114,330 Total 745 704 25,291 25,524 27,863 27,236 228,096 242,462Hence in British vessels :-
And in Foreign vessels:-
1909 1908 16.67% 15.83% of the crews were British. 1.2% 0.95% of the crews were British. 0.29% 0.18% of the crews were other Europeans. 19.7% 18.89% of the crews were other Europeans. 83.03% 83.98% of the crews were Asiatics. 79.1% 80.14% of the crews were Asiatics.