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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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