Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 96
ddle-steamers on the service, and thescrew-propeller was adopted by the Admiralty in 1845 ;twin-screws followed twenty-five years later. The Greenock, built in 1848, was the first war vessel bythe Scotts fitted with the screw-propeller. We have alreadyreferred to her construction in iron, and to… … CO00 H<O wW P<1 o COCO W O Wo H.M.S. Greenock, 1848; H.M.S. Canopus, 1900. 47 719 indicated horse-power. The speed realised on the trial was9.6 knots. The Greenocks machinery, which is illustratedon the next page, is specially interesting, as it representsone of the earliest attempts to drive…
