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 98
than the French ships ; but then—as now and always—skill in strategy, courage in combat, anddevotion to duty were the most powerful factors in action.No fault in these respects could be found with the work of ourNavy in the various engagements which terminated in theepoch-marking victory in… … 00 o o m M EH I—i PSPh S 1—1 £> PP hP a H02 i—i WH Ph o Wa£P«i>-p The First Warship Built of Iron. 47 sciences which contributed to the development of destructiveweapons. Steam as a motive power and iron as a constructivematerial were not so readily adopted in the Navy ship as inthe Merchant…