Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 64
East India Companys vesselsto Bombay. This service developed into the Peninsularand Oriental service, when, in 1840, the Company tookover the mail service on the Indian Ocean; in 1847they extended their operations to China. The overlandservice continued until the Suez Canal was opened in1869, and… … H£ y< H ■n o Experiments in View of Long - Distance Steaming. 27 The Tagus,1 which was thus amongst the first of theP. and 0. steamers, was built in 1837. She had a length of182.1 ft., a beam of 26 ft., and a depth of 17 ft. 4 in., theburden tonnage being 709 tons. When carrying 265 tons ofcoal…
