ips convoyed | 8,194 | 6,774 | 14,968 |
| Casualties | 74 | 44 | 118 |
| Per cent of casualties | 0.9 | 0.65 | 0.79 |
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| TONNAGES |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
| | (GROSS DEADWEIGHT) |
| |--------------------------------------|
| | Homeward | Outward | Total |
| | bound | bound | |
|-----------------------------|-----------|-----------|--------------|
| Convoyed | 59,062,200| 47,491,950| 106,554,150 |
| Lost | 510,600| 378,100| 888,700 |
| Per cent of losses | 0.86| 0.8| 0.83 |
| |--------------------------------------|
| | (GROSS TONNAGE) |
| |--------------------------------------|
| Convoyed | 43,196,740| 33,860,491| 77,057,231 |
| Lost | 364,842| 289,446| 654,288 |
| Per cent of losses | 0.84| 0.85| 0.85 |
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Fifteen cargo ships with a deadweight tonnage of 103,692, were lost
during 1918 by the Naval Overseas Transportation Service. The removal of
the ban of secrecy, vital during the war as a protection to vessels and
their crews, discloses that 6 ships, aggregating 42,627 tons, were
destroyed by enemy activity, 5 vessels, representing a tonnage of 44,071
tons, were sunk in collisions, and 4 vessels, totalling 16,994 tons,
were destroyed by fire and explosion. Seventy-two ships were originally
assigned to this service late in 1917, and when the armistice was
signed, November 11, 1918, the cargo fleet numbered 453 vessels,
including 106 ships ready to be taken over.

Crews of naval cargo ships faced many perils, including the menace of an
unseen foe, the danger of collision, and the liability to death by
accidents from inflammable cargoes.

Not only were these crews confronted with the normal perils of the sea,
says the report, but they faced destruction from torped