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 70
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… … AN ENGINE OF 1832. In the late thirties and the early forties there was a greatdevelopment in oversea trading steamers, the Clyde taking,then as now, the foremost place. Several epoch-markingvoyages had been made with the steam engine used inter-mittently. The Savannah had thus crossed the…
