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■550 ix. shipping and navigation.
Table 113 (cont.) The Swedish Mercantile Marine during 1912.
Tonnage-groups Steam-ships Sailing vessels Total
Home-ports Num- Gross- Horse- Num- Gross Num- Actual "Reduced"
ber tonnage pover. ber tonnage ber tonnage tonnage i
C) Home-ports, certain
towns r
Gothenburg..... 266 193 822 143 035 22 7 486 288 201308 588 952
Stockholm . . 250 148 643 115 612 24 2 643 274 151 286 448 572
Hälsingborg..... 92 101 223 59 845 35 6 420 127 107 643 310 089
Malmö....... 35 28 607 24 870 1 505 36 29 112 86 326
Gävle........ 29 21 501 13 313 4 180 33 21 681 64 683
Landskrona..... 22 19 997 11920 4 1502 26 21499 61493
Trälleborg...... 15 13 781 19 335 — — 15 13 781 41 343
Sölvesborg ..... 8 9 751 5 465 5 266 13 10 017 29 519
Karlshamn..... 14 9 250 6 001 14 658 28 9 908 28 408
Oskarshamn..... 13 8 086 6 303 24 3 448 37 11 534 27 706
1 See note 1 on page 549. — " Towns which possess the largest shipping fleets.
As regards sailing vessels, in recent years we observe everywhere a
decrease, as well in number as in burthen. However, the decline in
sailing vessels began later in Sweden than in other countries, increase being
observable there until about the year 1880.
The Swedish mercantile marine’s notable inferiority during the period
1881—90 is chiefly due to the fact that the fleet of steam ships was not
developed in conformity with the exigencies of the time. Sweden had
many steam ships, but they were, as a rule, small — a natural result of
the fact that her shipping was limited to the waters in the near
neighbourhood of Sweden. During the last decade, however, a notable improvement
bas shown itself, which is connected with the development of trans-atlantic
steamboat lines. In the year 1901 was built the first vessel of over 3 000
tons net tonnage, and now there are no less than 19 vessels of a tonnage
exceeding that figure. The largest has a tonnage of 4 444 tons net tonnage.
Whilst in the year 1898 there were only 5 vessels of 2 000 tons and over,
net tonnage, the corresponding figure is now 56.
A classification of Swedish trading vessels according to their size and home
ports, by bins and leading towns, is given in Table 113. In 1912 there were
1 083 steam ships built of iron or steel, while 56 were built of wood, and 115 of
wood and iron combined. The gross tonnage of steam vessels built of iron or steel
amounted to 899 080 tons, for ships built of wood to 6 353 tons, and for ships
built of iron and wood combined to 20 147 tons. Of the steam vessels added
to the merchant fleet during 1912, 23, of a net tonnage of 3 707 tons were
built in Sweden, and 44, of a net tonnage of 51 348 tons were acquired from
foreign countries. Of the sailing vessels only 18, of a gross tonnage of
8 316 tons, built of iron or steel, as against 1 508 vessels, of a gross tonnage
of 170 012, built of wood, and 13 vessels, of a gross tonnage of 1 324 tons
built of wood and iron combined. 9 sailing vessels, 649 tons net tonnage,
were built in Sweden during the year 1912, while 55 vessels, of 8 812 tons
net tonnage, were acquired from abroad.
Below are given some figures concerning the more important shipping
companies of Sweden (end 1913).
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