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 60
fter the Duke ofWellingtons great victory—and gave rise to the following poetic effusion :—And now amid the reign of peace, Arts guiding stream we ply ;That makes our wheels, like whirling reels, Oer yielding water fly.As our heroes drove their foes that strove Against the bonnets blue ;On every… … o 00 o o PSHco H<lO pq CO The Largest Steamers of 1820. 19 in August, 1819, showed that two and a half hours Were occupiedin the run from Glasgow to Greenock, about 22 miles; andwithin 26 hours thereafter the vessel took on her pilot at thenorth-west lightship outside the Mersey Bar. The…