Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 48
ps now constructed depend upon theunbought but uncertain winds, and then only for specialtrades. On regular routes the steamer is now almostparamount, and it was, therefore, appropriate in the highestdegree that the first vessels to steam regularly to China,vid the Cape, should, like the Lord of… … CLOSE association existed between theScotts and the family of James Watt,the inventor of the steam engine: thefounder of the Scotts shipbuilding firmand the father of Watt were identifiedwith several schemes for the improve-ment of Greenock ; and the signatureof John Scott, of the third generation,…
