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Annexe A
MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE.
Thirty-four thousand six hundred and sixteen (34,616) seamen were shipped and 33,233 discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office and on board ships during the year, compared with 31,912 shipped and 28,556 discharged during 1919.
Fifty-seven (57) distressed seamen were received and admitted to Sailors' Home and Boarding House; of these 17 were sent Home, 2 to Calcutta, 1 to Port Said, 3 to Sydney, 2 to Vancouver, 3 passengers to Canton, 1 to Foochow, 1 disappeared, 1 died in Hospital and 26 obtained employment.
$1,386.29 was expended by the Harbour Master on behalf of the Board of Trade on the relief of these distressed seamen.
Annexe B
MARINE SURVEYOR'S OFFICE.
The total number of vessels surveyed for Passenger Certificate and Bottom Inspection in 1920 was 139 vessels of 373,920 gross tons, 55 being surveyed at Kowloon Docks, 43 at Taikoo Dockyard, 7 at Cosmopolitan, 3 at Aberdeen Dock, and 17 on Chinese slipways; the remainder being surveyed in the harbour on bottom Certificate previously granted at Hongkong or Shanghai.
The nationalities and tonnage of these vessels were as follows:
British 94 vessels of 268,062 tons Norwegian 8 10,743 American 25 36,466 Japanese 2 5,647 Siamese 1 2,191 Russian 2 5,372 Chinese 7 1,725Emigration surveys were held on 52 British and 72 Foreign Steamships, as compared with 47 British and 58 Foreign Steamships in the previous year.