Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 79
single crank, a heavy flywheel was fitted, and the pumplevers carried a massive weight to help to balance the weight of pistonsand rods. The condenser had 420 tubes 1^ in. in diameter, giving a coolingsurface of 1375 square feet. The tubes were arranged in three nests, thewater circulating through… … rscre.a) THE MACHINERY OF THE ACHILLES. were : one air pump, 24 in. in diameter; one circulating pump, 24 in. indiameter; two feed pumps, 4| in. in diameter; and one bilge pump 7 in.in diameter : all the pumps were single-acting, with 17 in. stroke. Thediameters of the principal pipes were : main…
