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 84
l in the Thetis of a series ofwater-tubes for the purpose of utilising the waste heat from theboilers to heat the feed water before it was passed to the boilers.The time was not ripe for such a utilisation of the waste gases; butnow various schemes are applied for thus absorbing the wasteheat in… … T^nTff A PIONEER IN WATER-TUBE BOILERS. 38 A Pioneer in Water-Tube Boilers. A number of water-tube boilers were made, and a setwas fitted into a corvette built for the French. Navy. Thisvessel, completed in the early sixties, was the first ship in theFrench fleet to be driven by compound engines,…
