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SHIPPING IN GENERAL.
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Table 139. The Commercial Navy of Sweden, in 1850/1901.
(Before 1895 all Teuela; from 1896 lnolailve, rewel» of to ton* and above.;
At the end of Number of vessels. Total tonnage.1 Sailing Vessels. Steam Vessels. < Reduced <
tonnage.* Steam
Vessels In
Tonnage. Tonnage. Id.
multiplied with 8. Nominal
horsepower.
1850 ......... 2,744 205,800 201,800 4,000 12,000 ? 213,800 56
1860 ......... 3,200 283,600 271,600 12,000 36,000 6,000 307,600 11-7
1870 ......... 3,376 350,200 319,300 30,900 92,700 11,601 412,000 22-6
1880 ......... 4,333 552,400 461,600 90,800 272,400 24,601 734,000 371
1890 ......... 3,874 510,947 369,680 141,267 423,801 37,843 793,481 53-4
1895 ......... 2,763 483,003 301,727 181,276 543,828 42,360 843,333 643
1900 ......... 2,987 613,792 288,687 325,105 975,315 67,317 1,214,002 772
1901 ......... 3,102 640,211 298,589 341,622 1,024,866 70,562 1,323,433 77-4
As in other countries, the number of vessels has during several of
the latter years been rather reduced than increased, while the tonnage
has grown — the latter still, only concerning steamers. As to sailing
vessels, there appears everywhere a declination nowadays, as well with
regard to number as tonnage. In Sweden the decrease of the fleet of
sailing vessels, howewer, commenced later than in most other countries,
inasmuch as with us it increased up to about 1880.
Shipping in general.
The entire shipping (home and foreign) in our Swedish ports
amounted in 1901 to 269,411 vessels entered and cleared, of altogether
40,000,784 tons. These figures stand for all vessels of ten tons and more,
but not for the local traffic taking place within the respective harbour
itself. Of the sum above mentioned, 182,749 are steamers, with a tonnage
of 34,049,090 tons, which corresponds to about five sixths of the sum total.
The total shipping in our ports has during the ten years’ period 1892/1901
increased by 37 n.
A great obstacle for Swedish shipping is, as well known, the fact
of the ports in the northern parts of our country being blocked by ice
during a great part of the year. In southern Sweden, on the other
hand, the shipping can, practically spoken, be said to keep open the
whole year round, as a rule.
During 1891/95, the shipping was on an average open 225 days of
the year in Hernösand, 335 days in Stockholm, 358 days in Visby, and
364 in Helsingborg. A comparison with earlier days shows that, on
the whole, the time during which the shipping is blocked by ice, has
1 Register tons (Moorsom system); for the steamers, net tonnage according to the German
Bille. So also in the following. — 81, e. the tonnage of the sailing vessels + 8 times that
of the steam vessels. — ’ Steam vessels’ tonnage, multiplied with 3, in per cent of the
total <Beduced tonnage«.
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