Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock

The same broad policy is pursued in the shops. Payment by merit to the tradesman is adopted as far as possible. In the engine works the bonus system--first adopted in 1902--is e...

In the joiners' shops, illustrated by two engravings on Plate XLVII., adjoining this page, there is a complete equipment of wood-working machines for sawing, turning, planing, m...

The nineteenth century brought every incentive to the development of shipbuilding. Nelson taught the lesson, never to be forgotten, that sea-power is essential to the commercial...

The Holt steam line to China was commenced in 1865, and was the only one _viâ_ the Cape of Good Hope which proved at once successful. Built and engined by the Scotts, the early...

One of the first steamers to trade in the Mediterranean was the _Superb_, sent thither in 1824, and the _Trinacria_, also built by the Scotts, followed in 1825. These ran betwee...

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"Take it all in all, a ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.... Into that he has put as much of his human patience,...

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The engines of the _Canopus_ are illustrated on page 49 by a drawing taken from a Paper read at the Institution of Civil Engineers, by Sir John Durston and Admiral H. J. Oram.[6...

The Scotts had worked steadily at the solution of the problem from their trials with the _Thetis_ in 1858 (see page 34 _ante_). In 1860 the late John Scott, C.B., laid before th...