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Description:Excerpt from Journal of the New England Water Works Association, 1919, Vol. 33 English, French, and Italian navies was considerable, but they were devoted almost entirely to convoying troops and protecting the main ﬂeets against submarine attacks. Merchant ships had to get along the best they could. On the most important station which the British had for protecting commerce there were only seven destroyers, and it went without saying that these boats could not be used to convoy ships, as they had to remain on the station to chase down every submarine which was reported. It may be well to give a brief summary of the general shipping situation. In 1914 there were something like 53 000000 tons of shipping, - including the Great Lakes and the coastal ship ping and everything - and of that amount about 18000000 tons have been destroyed by the submarines and about 5 000 000 more of German shipping were interned, so that only about 30 000 000 tons remain of the original amount. To this must be added the 10 000 000 tons which have been built during the war, a much smaller amount than usual, of course, because the British construction was very largely cut off when the war started. It is only within the last year that the British have started their shipyards going again on merchant shipping, and they are now approaching their normal yearly output. There is now possibly 40000000 tons available. If the war had not occurred and normal building had proceeded, there would have been about 65 000000 tons available now; so it is easy to see how serious the shortage is. The needs of the governments are so large that a very small amount remains available for private use. The situation has been met in this country in two ways: First, by the building of destroyers to protect what shipping we had left; and, second, by building additional shipping as rapidly as possible. The destruction program of the Germans, beginning with February, 1917, called for the destruction of about a million gross tons of shipping per month, and they actually approached this at first; but now the destruction has been reduced, in August, 1918, to around 250 000 tons per month; and during this present summer the shipbuilding has increased so that we have passed the destruction limit and are actually building more ships than are being sunk every month by the submarines. We have just passed the low point and are starting on the upward curve how ever, so it is going to be months and years before we catch up to where the shipping should be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journal of the New England Water Works Association, 1919, Vol. 33 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Journal of the New England Water Works Association, 1919, Vol. 33 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Journal of the New England Water Works Association, 1919, Vol. 33 English, French, and Italian navies was considerable, but they were devoted almost entirely to convoying troops and protecting the main ﬂeets against submarine attacks. Merchant ships had to get along the best they could. On the most important station which the British had for protecting commerce there were only seven destroyers, and it went without saying that these boats could not be used to convoy ships, as they had to remain on the station to chase down every submarine which was reported. It may be well to give a brief summary of the general shipping situation. In 1914 there were something like 53 000000 tons of shipping, - including the Great Lakes and the coastal ship ping and everything - and of that amount about 18000000 tons have been destroyed by the submarines and about 5 000 000 more of German shipping were interned, so that only about 30 000 000 tons remain of the original amount. To this must be added the 10 000 000 tons which have been built during the war, a much smaller amount than usual, of course, because the British construction was very largely cut off when the war started. It is only within the last year that the British have started their shipyards going again on merchant shipping, and they are now approaching their normal yearly output. There is now possibly 40000000 tons available. If the war had not occurred and normal building had proceeded, there would have been about 65 000000 tons available now; so it is easy to see how serious the shortage is. The needs of the governments are so large that a very small amount remains available for private use. The situation has been met in this country in two ways: First, by the building of destroyers to protect what shipping we had left; and, second, by building additional shipping as rapidly as possible. The destruction program of the Germans, beginning with February, 1917, called for the destruction of about a million gross tons of shipping per month, and they actually approached this at first; but now the destruction has been reduced, in August, 1918, to around 250 000 tons per month; and during this present summer the shipbuilding has increased so that we have passed the destruction limit and are actually building more ships than are being sunk every month by the submarines. We have just passed the low point and are starting on the upward curve how ever, so it is going to be months and years before we catch up to where the shipping should be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journal of the New England Water Works Association, 1919, Vol. 33 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Journal of the New England Water Works Association, 1919, Vol. 33 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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