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 136
should be, and in organisa-tion. The dominant principle of the Dreadnought ideal wasthe carrying of the maximum number of guns of uniform largecalibre, so disposed as to enable the greatest possible fire tobe concentrated on the enemy ship, irrespective of the relativeangle of the combatants,… … The Dreadnought Era. 69 bombardment of Alexandria ; but it was not until manyyears later, when Lord Fisher was in a position of influenceat the Admiralty, that his first idea was carried into effectand gave us the Dreadnought, built in 1906. She was a greatstep in advance of her predecessors, and…
