602
GERMAN EMPIRE
Principal articles of British
Produce exported to
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
Germany
£
£
£
£
£
Cottons and yarn .
2,523,736
^i2, 484, 420
3,284,713
3,853,936
3,649,122
Woollens and yarn .
3,065,212
3,017,163
4,191,206
4,649,176
3,882,016
Alpaca, &c., yarn .
608,513
475,356
1,019,859
914,428
1,018,017
Wool .
1,065,645
829,509
887,201
933,866
733,974
Iron
965,218
1,070,912
1,113,966
1,706,697
1,785,976
Herrings .
837,598
990,358
1,092,676
793,064
881,100!
Machinery
1,432,711
1,621,148
1,602,831
1,787,968
1,809,871!
Coals, cinders, &c. .
1,559,233
1,817,850
1,702,404
1,784, 921 j 2,021,4441
Other exports of British produce to Germany in 1897 were linen goods and yarn, 509, 910^. ; manure, 314,065/. ; oils, 221,943Z. ; chemicals, 330,750?. ; leather, 362, 683?. ; copper, 313,204?.
Great Britain exported to Germany foreign and colonial cotton valued at 447,699?. ; wool at 2,980,395?. in 1896. Tea exported to Germany from Great Britain declined from 1,082,950?. in 1884 to 281,701?. in 1897.
The ports of Hamburg and Bremen are the chief gates of commercial intercourse of Germany with the United Kingdom.
Shipping and Navigation.
The following was the distribution of the mercantile navy of Germany (only ships of more than 17 '65 tons gross-tonnage) on January 1, 1896, 1897, and 1898:—
—
Baltic Ports
North Sea Ports
Total Shipping
Number
Net tonnage
Number
Net tonnage
Number
1 Net tonnage
1896 :— Sailing vessels Steamers
Totals
1897:— Sailing vessels Steamers
Totals .
1898 :— Sailing vessels Steamers
Totals .
551 381
932
95,020 144,346
1,973
687
527,085 735,593
1,262,678
2,524 1,068
622,105 879,939
239,366
2,660
3,592
1,502,044
509 389
898
76,703 142,818
2,043 737
2,780
520,914 747,142
1,268,056
2,552 1,126
3,678
597,617 889,960
219,521
1,487,577
855,571 969,800
472 404
59,309 157,427
2,050 767
2,817
526,262 812,373
2,522 1,171
876
216,736
1,838,635
3,693
1,555,371
Of the total shipping in 1896, 2,055 of 255,443 tons; in 1897, 2,053 of 262,543 tons belonged to Prussian ports. The total number of sailors required for manning the ships of the merchant navy in 1898 was 42,428.
