Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 44
ved satisfactory. In fact, in theseyears, when the Minerva, Acbar, and other noted clipperswere built, the care used in design and construction wasalmost as great as that now devoted in the case of racingyachts. The Scotts, in the first half of the nineteenth century,continued to produce a long… … Hi w .-/. XI) >-> rt ^-^ -h P i—i Hi 11 <1 Oi PP HI h-1 » o c^ rt <3 The Lord of the Isles. 13 been increased, and coal consumption reduced to moderatelimits ; and thus it came that, although the steam enginewas used in the early years of the nineteenth century inriver, and later in…
