Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock. Partly reprinted from "Engineering" (1920)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : Offices of "Engineering," 35 and 36, Beford Street, W.C.". · leaf 116
. Vincent, and in 1909 laid downthe super-Dreadnought battleship Colossus. Subsequentlythey built the battleship Ajax, several high-speed light cruisers,and many destroyers. But before referring in detail to the laterships in the next chapter on Work for the Great War Fleet,1914-1918, we may… … P Mo GO 25 25 Early Guns and Explosives. 59 The gun most in favour at the close of the eighteenth,and at the opening of the nineteenth, centuries was the cast-iron, smooth-bored, muzzle-loader : first the 32-pounder andlater the 68-pounder. Carronades were used for smashing rather than for…
