The Clyde from its source to the sea, its development as a navigable river, the rise and progress of marine engineering and shipbuilding on its banks, and the leading historical, geological, and meteorological features of the Clyde Valley (1888)
Millar, W. J · London, Blackie · leaf 250
the efficiencyof the screw, by keeping it well immersed, than greatlength with shallow draught, which told very muchagainst the screws efficiency. Mr. Denny further statesthat he he is convinced that the steamer which was todo the Atlantic work would be a vessel of what might becalled at the… … 224 THE CLYDE: EIJOM SOURCE TO SEA. learn, came nearest the type he had in view. He believedthe steamer to do this work would be under 500 feet inlength between perpendiculars. What her other dimen-sions should be would have to be fixed by experimentand a very careful series of calculations. The…
Steam-navigation · Clyde River (Scotland)
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