Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 80
pe, with wet-bottomed furnaces. The centre was cylindrical, but the ends were rectangularwith semi-cylindrical tops, the total weight, without water, being 78 tons.Each boiler had a long receiver passing through the uptake to dry the steam.On the receiver was a deadweight safety-valve 6^ in. in… … GENERAL ARRANGEMENT OF THE MACHINERY OF THE ACHILLES. Success of Steam over Sailing- Ships. 39 The three pioneer ships of the Holt line —theAgamemnon, Ajax, and Achilles—proved most economical.The Achilles came home from China in fifty-seven dayseighteen hours, net steaming time, or, including the…
