The following table shows the seagoing screw steamships in the world of 12 knots or upward, and of 2,000 gross tons or more, recorded in Lloyd's Register on July 1, 1903; including a few vessels building at that time. While in tonnage these vessels are about one-fourth of the world's sea-going steam tonnage, in efficiency, due to their size and speed, they represent more nearly one-third of the effective ocean-carrying power of the world in the general foreign and colonial carrying trade, and probably 85 per cent, of the world's foreign passenger trade.

Speed.

1903.

Number.

Tons.

Twenty knots and over.....

20

236,114

Under 20 and over 19 knots.

9

63,219

Under 19 and over 18 knots.

24

191,454

Under 18 and over 17 knots.

56

378.197

Under 17 and over 16 knots.

80

550,315

Under 16 and over 15 knots.

98

509,479

Under 15 and over 14 knots.

154

766,719

Under 14 and over 13 knots.

379

1,886.602

Under 13 and over 12 knots.

502

2,079,775

Total.......................

1,322

6,661,874

The World s Large And Fast Ocean Steamships 89

Japanese.......... 700,000

Russian........... 1,000,000

Italian............ 1,200,000

French............ 1,500,000

Norwegian......... 1,700,000

United States...... 2,800,000

German........... 3,000,000

British............15,000,000