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7. The 365 British Ships carried 3,621 British Officers and 20 Foreign Officers, the latter consisting of 14 U.S.A., 4 Norwegians, 1 Dutch, and one German.
Thus, the proportion of Foreign Officers serving in British Ships was 0.54%, comprising 4 nationalities, an increase of 0.12%, with an increase in number of Officers and of ships.
8. The 369 Foreign Ships carried 2,583 Officers, of whom 144 were British, as follows:--
In Chinese Ships 90 72
French 9 3
Japanese 42 46
United States Ships 3 4 6 1 144 125
Thus 5.5% of the Officers serving in Foreign Vessels were of British Nationality, an increase of 0.7% with an increase in the number of Officers and ships.
9. The Nationality of the Crews in British and Foreign Ships was as follows:---
VESSELS. BRITISH CREWS. U. S. A. AND EUROPEANS. ASIATICS. 1909. 1910. 1909. 1910. 1909. 1910. British, 336 365 24,158 24,610 281 449 128,132 131,635 Foreign, 368 369 1,366 1,352 26,955 28,216 114,330 113,050 Total, 704 734 25,524 25,962 27,236 28,665 242,462 244,685Hence in British Ships :-
And in Foreign Ships:-
1909. 1910. 1909. 1910. 15·83 % 15.70% of the crews were British. 0.95% of the crews were British. 0.09% 0.29% of the crews 18.89% 19.78 % of the crews 83.98 % 84.01% of the crews 80.14% 79.27 % of the crews were other Europeans, were other Europeans. were Asiatics. were Asiatics.