Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 38
ifteen years. This was duepartly to defective constructional details, and partly tothe ineffective methods of preserving timber. Ships were then built up1 of a series of transverse ribs,connected together by the outside planking and by theceiling. There was no filling between the ribs. Theships… … ft. <>3 < H o 1—1H 10 West Indiamen. laying the ceiling and the outside planking diagonally,while in other instances the whole was strengthened withvertical or diagonal riders; but none of these systems gavecomplete satisfaction. The Sepping system was introducedabout 1810, and was early…
