Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 36
01 from Chambers Estimates,pages 68, 69, and 90; for 1793 from Lindsays History of MerchantShipping; for 1803 from Porters Progress of the Nation, page 626;and for 1901 from the Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom. 1701. 1793. 1803. 1901. Number of ships ... 3,281 16,079 20,893 20,258… … s * fc <i—i Qt—iHW 8 Improved Constructional Methods. of exploration, and an ambition for colonisation. Successbrought the chastening influence of responsibility, with ahigher appreciation of the advantage of a conciliatory policytowards foreign nations. Contemporaneously with the growthof this…
