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? 16 THE MarRINE REVIEW LLOYDS SHIP BUILDING RETURNS. The most significant and interesting statement in Lloyds annual summary of ship building in the United Kingdom and abroad during 1905 is the statement that 99.9 per cent of the tonnage launched in the United Kingdom during the year has been built of steel and that 98.87 per cent was steam tonnage. During the year, exclusive of war ships, 795 vessels of 1,623,168 tons gross (737 steamers of 1,604,- y Kingdom by about 123,000 tons. There were numerous sales of steam tonnage also so that the net increase to the tonnage of the United Kingdom during the year was 469,000 tons. In 1905 21% per cent of the total output was acquired by foreign and colonial ship owners, as com- pared with 18 2-3 per cent in 1904, 18 per cent in 1903 and 1902, 23 per cent in 1901 and 1900. The returns continue to illustrate the tendency toward the construction of steamers of large tonnage. During the LILY POND---HARBOR OF REFUGE, 696 tons and 58 sailing vessels of 18,372 tons), were launched in the United Kingdom. The war ships launched at both government and private yards amounted to twenty- eight of 129,801 tons displacement. The total output of the United Kingdom for the year has therefore been 823 vessels of 1,752,969 tons. The output of mercantile ton- From Maj. Charles L. Potter's Report. four years 1892-5 on an average eight vessels of 6,000 tons and upwards were launched per annum in the .United Kingdom; in the following four years, 1896-99, the aver- age rose to twenty-five and to thirty-nine for the four years 1900-3. Of vessels of 10,000 tons and upwards only three were launched in the four years 1892-5; seventeen INSIDE THE BREAKWATERS, LOOKING INTO UPPER CANAL. nage in the United Kingdom during 1905 shows the great increase of 418,000 tons over that of 1904 and is the high- est on record. The wastage of vessels during the year was 238,000 tons of which 188,000 was steam and 50,000 sail. Other causes, such as sales, decreased the sailing tonnage of the United From Maj. Charles L. Potter's Report. were launched during the four years 1896-9; thirty-two were launched during the four years 1900-3. In 1904, however, the number of vessels launched of 6,000 tons.and upwards was only fifteen, three of which were over 10,000 tons; but it again rose in 1905 to twenty-five vessels of which four were of 12,000 tons and over,