Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 102
ur with which itwas viewed by M. Dupuy de Lome, the head of theDepartment. The first ship fitted was a corvette of650 tons displacement; the boilers worked at a pressureof 140 lb., while the initial pressure at the compoundthree-cylinder engines was 120 lb. These were the firstengines of the… … t> a, C5 oo GO 23 CO M Boiler Questions. 51 yards for the British Navy; and the Admiralty agreedto have fitted in one of them water-tube boilers and enginessimilar to those built for the French boats. The boilersmay be said to have belonged to the same generaltype as the Thornycroffc and Normand…
