56 REPORT OF AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE COMMISSION.
Tonnage of the world and of important maritime powers—Contiuued.
NORWEGIAN.

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Year.

Steam (over 100 tons).
Number.! Gross tons.

371
490
210
2
30.
63
6557
71¢
58
804
844
1.037

245, 052
367, 652
406,119
156, 317
194, 617
576, 598
528,493
672, 549
769, 242
779, 398
$63, 146
995, 683
1.030 637

Sail (over 50 tons).

Number. Net tons

3,567
&gt; 278
111
959
2,801
~' 594
582
208

1,405, 934
375,138
297, 801.
, 240, 159
2 176,174
1, 103, 284
2144, 482
996, 678
898, 761
833, 934
$07,125
767, 981
10’ 354

7
40
al

Potential
tonnage.

2,111, 610
2,416,359
9,343,173
+385, 531
2,433,390
9, 54d, 630
1720, 482
666, 230
~ 815, 977
, 883, 742
2, 960, 489
3,069, 533
2’ 209’ £78

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Van

Number.

Gross
tons.

. | is
- 2 Lv gross)
Number. Net tons. Bod aatl
(net).

147
146
43
Fi
of

123,279
120, 882
121, 697
142,095
171,901
14) 659
313, 563
108, 503
139, 50%
477,511
518, 493
530, 067
551, 036
615. OTR

104
9
100
260
256
248
23
4
310
053
502
+, 497
1,521
1’ 5a

27,721
25, 602
26,505
37.615
36, 867
37, 655
33, 880
31, 750
30, 515
10, 966
17, 364
170, 790
172, 480
174, 624
184. 990

151,000
146, 484
148, 202
179, 710
J0R. 768
312, 814
346, 443
440, 953
£70, 024
196, 501.
504, 67R
659, 683
702, 537
730, 660)
22) 19%

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38
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372
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ArreNDIX C. ’
THE NEW CUNARD SUBSIDY

From Report of the Commissioner of Navigation for 1902 pages 18-521

On the part of the British Government the Cunard contract is made jointly by the
Adniralty, representing the Navy Department, by the Board of Trade, corresponding
to our Department of Commerce and Labor, and by the Posjmaster-General. The
public purposes of the contract, recited in the preambles, are the maintenance and
improvement of British steamship lines to the United States, the control by the
Admiralty, when desired. of the Clunard fleet. and the transportation of the British
mails.
The basic articles of the new Cunard contract are the following:
“3. (1) The company shall forthwith cause to be built for it in the United Kingdom,
 with all due dispatch, two steamships of large size capable of maintaining a
minimum average ocean speed of from 24 to 25 knots an hour in moderate weather,
suitable in all respects to maintain and develop the company’s line between Liverpool
 and New York, or other ports in Great Britain and the United States of America.
“10. His Majesty's Government shall advance to the company a sumn equal to the
cost to the company of the two steamships referred to in clause 3 hereof, but not
exceeding in any event £2,600,000, upon the terms and conditions following:’’
The estimate of the first cost of these steamers, £1,300,000 each, was based on the
investications of a special commission of the Admiralty. That commission reported