Note 33 — Chapter VII · OUTPUT OF TONNAGE IN THE PRINCIPAL DISTRICTS.
Reading edition
The following fragmentary returns have, through the kindness of a friend engaged in shipbuilding on the Tyne, been forwarded while those sheets were in the press. They have been gathered from occasional records in the local press, supplemented by personal knowledge, but may only be taken as approximate:—
Year. No. of Vessels. Tons. Year. No. of Vessels. Tons.
1864 97 49,820 1868 86 45,390
1865 123 77,500 1869 — ——
1866 110 51,800 1870 95 86,420
1867 81 34,080 1871 — ——