Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 28
EastIndia Company had a monopoly of the eastern seas, sofar as Britain was concerned, and preferred to build theirships in India, although many were constructed on the southcoast of England. This monopoly checked progress. Therewas little or no incentive to improvement in merchant ships,and the… … o; e fti—i The First Square-Rigged Ship. 3 on the authority of Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, K.C.B.,1 thatneither Government nor private builders made much progressin improving methods of construction. The first letterspatent granted for improvements relating to ships bear thedate January 17th, 1618, but…
