People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — SHIPS OF ALL NATIONS. [ARTICLE]

SHIPS OF ALL NATIONS.

England Own* More Veuiel* Than AU tU* ' < • Other Countries Combined. The time when ■ England will forfeit her title of mistress of the teas is still very remote, judging from a list of the world’s shipping published by the Bureau Vcritas of Trieste. The statistics given are for the year 1891, in whfrih It appears that the whole numbe? of steam vessels of all nations—none lifting included of less than 100 tons burden—was 10,103, and their total 805,028. Of this aggregate more than half in number and nearly half in tonnage belonged to England, the figures for that country being 5,471 steamships and. 5,369,951 tons. After this showing, it seems scarcely worth while to consider the relative standing of other nar tions. Only four, according to this table, have so many as 400 steamships; these being Germany, with 761, France - with 448, the United States with 456 and Norway with 440, their respective tonnage, excepting Norway, which is much below the average, being in about the same proportion.' When we come to sailing vessels, the preponderance of Great Britain is not nearly so marked, though she still towers far above her nearest rival, which in this case is the United States. The figures are: Whole number of sailing vessels in the world, of not less than 50 tons, 81,660; tonnage, 10,217,009. England’s share is 0,751 ships and 3,563,524 tons, and that of the UuitedStates 8,504 ships and 1,519,114 tons. Norway comes next, with 8,419 shipsand 1,393,481 tons. All the rest are far behind. At the foot of the list in sailing vessels is Japan, and in steamships our pugnacious South American cousin, Chili, which has only 84. China has the same number, but its total tonnage is a few thousand more.—Mechanical News. ■. .