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appendix 9.3 269 b. Coastal and Short-Haul Shipping Ships Safely Arrived Ships Lost The Scandinavian run: 28 April 1917–January 1918 3,423: 40 19 January–25 November 1918 4,230: 15 British coastal convoys 1 April–31 December 1917 3,304: 2 East Coast convoys 28 April 1917–15 January 1918 3,654: 34 16 January–25 November 1918 16,102: 35 French coal trade Penzance to Brest 10,292: 36 Portland to Cherbourg 7,442: 1 St. Helen’s (IOW) or Portland to Le Havre 14,860: 13 Southend to Boulogne or Calais 6,758: The Dutch route 1,861: 6 Local Mediterranean routes 10,464: 127 Total 82,390: 312 The numbers of ships given as safely arrived are the ships that sailed in convoy. The numbers of ships given as lost are the ships lost to all causes, including natural causes and accidents, and ships that sailed either in convoy or independently. Source: Fayle, History of the Great War, Vol. 3: The Period of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, appendix C, table 6, “Convoy Losses and Sailings,” pp. 472–473. The composite figures are not available from the Admiralty Library and Naval Historical Branch, though they may be available in some file or files in the Public Record Office, identity and file number(s) unknown. ...