“…do not be car­ried away by suc­cess into demand­ing more than is right or pru­dent.” Winston Churchill 1919 On the 15th of November the UK Ship Register announced that the UK flag was, by gross tonnage, now the 14th largest in the world with its tonnage having increased by more than 6 per cent in the year to that date to over 16 million GT. Perhaps even more encouraging was the evident quality of the ships on the register with 85% of internationally trading vessels over 500