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 72
loped into the Peninsular and Oriental service, when,in 1840, the Company took over the mail service on the IndianOcean ; in 1847 they extended their operations to China. Theoverland service continued until the Suez Canal was openedin 1869, and many of the vessels for the Mediterraneanservice, as… … m < E-i H < Ph HGQ J—i GQ Eh HOO CO Experiments in View of Long-Distance Steaming. 27 The Tagus,1 which was thus one of the first quartette ofP. and 0. steamers, was built in 1837. She had a length of182.1 ft., a beam of 26 ft., and a depth of 17 ft. 4 in., the burdentonnage being 709 tons.…
