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 46
either in the Navy orin the mercantile marine. It was exceptional for a ship ofthe eighteenth century to continue in service for more thantwelve or fifteen years. This was due partly to defectiveconstructional details, and partly to the ineffective methodsof preserving timber. Ships were then built… … 10 Improved Constructional Methods. thus suffered severely from hogging and sagging stresses.The French tried to improve this by introducing obliqueiron riders across the ceiling, or by laying the ceiling and theoutside planking diagonally, while in other instances the wholewas strengthened with…
