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 34
ed progress. There was little or no incentiveto improvement in merchant ships, and the naval authoritieswere too busy fighting Continental nations to risk extensiveexperimental work. We have it on the authority of the lateSir Nathaniel Barnaby, K.C.B.,2 that neither Government norprivate builders… … The First Square-Rigged Ships. 3 of construction. The first letters patent granted for improve-ments relating to ships bear the date January 17th, 1618, butthe result of a thorough investigation of all patents between1618 and 1810 discloses no improvement worth recording,except in the manufacture…
