British Empire shipping 1937. Distribution of shipping of 3,000 tons gross and above on 24 November 1937.

Single sheet. Coloured lithograph, with the British Empire coloured red. Scale: [circa 1:23,000,000]. The maps shows the location of 2.476 ships, coded by tonnage, plotted in their positions as on 24 Nov 1937, Text boxes list commodities and the percentages of their production obtained by UK.

Object Details

ID: G201:1/29
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: HM Admiralty
Places: World
Date made: 1939
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 78 x 151cm, on sheet 84 x 153cm.