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 228
per cent, in the linear dimensions of theship, the later Scotts vessels being 503 ft. between perpendicu-lars. In respect of deadweight capacity, however, the changehas been more noteworthy, due to the adoption of mild steel,and structures based on scientific principles, permittinga reduction in… … £5 i—tH 0202 PhO oo I—IH O I—4> Wo ft E-i War Record of Holt Liners. 117 In fifty years the boiler pressure of the Holt liners hasincreased from 60 lb. to 220 lb., and in the case of reciprocatingengines the piston speed had advanced from 400 ft. to 800 ft.per minute. The heating surface in the…
