Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 87
ntury. is from 4 lb. to 5 lb. The economy of the steam engine hasaccounted, as is shown in the Table, for a considerablepart of this improvement. But, at the same time, thegrowth in the size of ships has enabled the normal speedof 10 knots to be realised, with an addition to enginepower of much… … Plate XIV.