The 310 British ships carried 2,790 British officers and 27 Foreign officers, the latter consisting of 5 American, 4 Dutch, 7 Swedish, and 11 Norwegian.
Thus the proportion of Foreign officers in British ships was 0.90 per cent. comprising 4 nationalities, an increase of 0.58 per cent., with a decrease in number of officers and of ships.
The 414 Foreign ships carried 3,312 officers, of whom 66 were British as follows:-
1914 1915 In Chinese ships — — Japanese ships 84 55 6 7 United States ships 4 4 51 51 French ships 0 0 94 66Thus 1.99 per cent. of the officers serving in Foreign ships were of British nationality, with a decrease in number of officers and of ships.
The nationality of the crews in British and in Foreign ships was as follows:
VESSELS BRITISH CREW EUROPEANS AND AMERICANS ASIATICS 1914 1915 1914 1915 1914 1915 British 385 310 24,264 20,253 866 901 135,214 128,160 Foreign 440 414 1,571 1,155 24,428 10,791 118,268 114,516 Total 825 724 25,835 21,408 25,294 11,692 253,482 242,676Hence in British ships:
And in Foreign ships:—
1914 1915 1914 1915 15.13% 13.57% of the crews were British. 1.98% 0.91% of the crews were British. 0.54% 0.60% of the crews were other Europeans. 16.93% 8.53% of the crews were other Europeans. 84.33% 85.83% of the crews were Asiatics. 81.98% 90.56% of the crews were Asiatics.