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 68
hot and cold baths. The speedwas 12 miles per hour.1 An interesting feature was the arrange-ment of the boilers, described in contemporary records2 as an entirely new plan. The boilers are placed in two heights,three below and two above. The three lower ones are firedin the usual way, and the two… … 10 n CO HQ p; w<l pq o E-fi—io A Record in Speed. 25 being much shorter than usual, four additional fires havebeen obtained. The Jupiter, of 439 tons and 210 horse-power, built in1836 for the Clyde and Dublin trade, cost £20,000, and estab-lished a record in speed, making the voyage in sixteen…