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 208
and closed promenades. The machinery was of the quadruple-expansion type,driving twin screws. Steam was generated in five double-endedboilers, and the power of 7500 horse-power gave the vesselsa service speed of 14 knots, with a coal consumption of only128 tons per twenty-four hours. Both vessels… … Pft «W^ P o K A Suggestion of the Future. 107 similar service in the North Atlantic, and was torpedoed andsunk on January 27th, 1918. The Alaunia served fromSeptember, 1914, to October, 1916, as a troopship carryingCanadians to the scene of war. She struck a mine in theEnglish Channel on October…
