TABLE, No. 27.

PERSONS EMPLOYED-(PROPORTIONS PER 100 TONS).

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STATEMENT showing the TONNAGE of SAILING and STEAM VESSELS (registered under the Merchant Shipping Acts) belonging to the UNITED KINGDOM, ISLE OF MAN, and CHANNEL ISLANDS (exclusive of Vessels Employed on Rivers, and in Inland Navigation), which were returned as Employed in the Home, partly in the Home and partly in the Foreign, and in the Foreign Trades respectively, in each of the Years 1854, 1860, 1865, 1870, 1875, 1880, 1885, and 1889-93; also the Number of Persons Employed therein, with the Proportion of Persons to every 100 Tons in each Trade and Class of Vessel, Masters not being included previous to the Year 1888.

Only such Foreign-going vessels belonging to the Isle of Man for which crews were engaged at ports in the United Kingdom are included. † Including Lascars and Asiatics under Asiatic Articles of Agreement. See note to previous Table. The number of persons employed in 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893, and the proportion per 100 tons, includes masters as well as Lascars and Asiatics. were omitted, as in previous years, the approximate proportion would be-

If masters

TABLE, No. 28.

PERSONS EMPLOYED (IN SMALL SAILING VESSELS).

NUMBER and TONNAGE of SAILING VESSELS under 300 Tons (registered under the Merchant Shipping Acts) belonging to the UNITED KINGDOM, ISLE OF MAN, and CHANNEL ISLANDS (exclusive of Vessels Employed on Rivers and in Inland Navigation), which were returned as Employed in the Home, partly in the Home and partly in the Foreign, and in the Foreign Trades, respectively, with the Number of Persons Employed therein, in each Year from 1860 to 1893, the Return being exclusive of Masters for the period from 1860 to 1887 inclusive.

TABLE, No. 28.

PERSONS EMPLOYED (IN SMALL SAILING VESSELS).

NUMBER and TONNAGE of SAILING VESSELS under 300 Tons (registered under the Merchant Shipping Vessels Employed on Rivers and in Inland Navigation), which were returned as Employed in the Home, of Persons Employed therein, in each Year from 1860 to 1893, the Return being exclusive of Masters

TABLE, No. 28.

PERSONS EMPLOYED (IN SMALL SAILING VESSELS).

Acts) belonging to the UNITED KINGDOM, ISLE OF MAN, and CHANNEL ISLANDS (exclusive of partly in the Home and partly in the Foreign, and in the Foreign Trades, respectively, with the Number for the period from 1860 to 1887 inclusive.

TABLE, No. 29.

ANALYSIS OF CREWS OF MERCHANT SHIPS (SAILING VESSELS).

COMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Constitution of the Crews of certain British SAILING Vessels

Note. In the above Table ships belonging to certain well-known firms have been selected at the chief Ports of the United Kingdom as

representatives