Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock

by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This date is incorrectly given as 1904 at the end of the third paragraph on page 66.

[2] Campbell's "Historical Sketches of the Town and Harbour of Greenock," vol. i., page 18.

[3] Sir Nathaniel Barnaby's "Naval Development in the Century," page 23.

[4] Brown's "Early Annals of Greenock," page 136

[5] Williamson's "Memorials of James Watt," 1856.

[6] "The Gazetteer of Scotland," 1842, vol. i., page 709.

[7] "Journals of the House of Commons," 1792, page 357.

[8] Holmes' "Ancient and Modern Ships," page 152.

[9] Williamson's "Old Greenock," page 148.

[10] Campbell's "Historical Sketches of the Town and Harbour of Greenock," page 68.

[11] The following figures are taken for 1701 from "Chambers' Estimates," pages 68, 69, and 90; for 1793 from Lindsay's "History of Merchant Shipping"; for 1803 from "Porter's Progress of the Nation," page 626; and for 1901 from the "Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom."

	1701.	1793.	1803.	1901.
Number of ships	3,281	16,079	20,893	20,258
Tonnage	261,222	1,540,145	2,167,863	15,357,052
Seamen	27,196	118,286	—	247,973

The Scottish fleet, which is not included for 1701 and 1793, was much smaller, alike in the size of units and aggregate tonnage.

[12] Holmes's "Ancient and Modern Ships," page 130.

[13] Weir's "History of Greenock."

[14] Brown's "Early Annals of Greenock," page 138.

[15] Murray's "Shipbuilding in Iron and Wood," page 60.

[16] Lindsay's "Merchant Shipping," vol. iii, page 294.

[17] Woodcroft's "Steam Navigation," page 20, etc.

[18] Woodcroft's "Steam Navigation," page 54.

[19] Deas' "Treatise on the Improvements and Progress of Trade on the River Clyde" (1873), page 24.

[20] Muirhead's "Life of Watt," pages 428 and 429.

[21] Williamson's "Clyde Passenger Steamers," pages 348 to 351.

[22] James Napier's "Life of Robert Napier," page 21.

[23] This was the second of the name—a favourite one after the Duke of Wellington's great victory, and gave rise to the following poetic effusion:—

And now amid the reign of peace,

Art's guiding stream we ply;

That makes our wheels, like whirling reels,

O'er yielding water fly.

As our heroes drove their foes that strove

Against the bonnets blue;

On every side the waves divide

Before the Waterloo.

[24] Millar in "Lecture on Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Glasgow Exhibition, 1880-81," page 138.

[25] "Greenock Advertiser," August 6th, 1819.

[26] "Steamboat Companion" for 1820.

[27] Millar, "On the Rise and Progress of Steam Navigation." Lectures at the Glasgow Exhibition (1880-81), page 138.

[28] Hodder's "Life of Sir George Burns, Bart.," page 161.

[29] Williamson's "Clyde Passenger Steamers," page 32.

[30] Lindsay's "History of Merchant Shipping," vol. iii., pages 78 to 80.

[31] Weir's "History of Greenock," page 89.

[32] Williamson's "Memorials of James Watt" (1856) page 228.

[33] "Greenock Advertiser," July 5th, 1839.

[34] "Greenock Advertiser," February 5th and May 25th, 1835.

[35] Fincham's "History of Naval Architecture," page 294.

[36] Sir Thomas Sutherland, in the "Pocket Book of the P. and O. Company" (1890), page 15.

[37] Fincham's "History of Naval Architecture," page 235.

[38] Sir John Ross's "Steam Communication to India by the Cape of Good Hope" (1838), page 31.

[39] "Greenock Advertiser," January 22nd, 1839.

[40] Fincham's "History of Naval Architecture," pages 320 and 321.

[41] Lindsay's "Merchant Shipping," vol. iv., page 86.

[A] It is difficult to determine in all cases the basis on which horse-power was computed. The figures given represent nominal horse-power, and in Sennett and Oram's "Marine Steam Engine" (page 3), the indicated horse-power is, for this early period, recorded as 1.8 times the nominal horse-power.

[42] "Practical Mechanic's Journal," vol. i., 1853.

[43] The number of steam vessels belonging to the United Kingdom in 1849 was only 1142, of 158,729 tons; Sweden, which was second among the nations of the world, had only about one-tenth of this tonnage.—Porter's "Progress of the Nation," page 626.

[44] Holmes' "Marine Engineering," page 74.

[45] Rankine's "Steam Engine," page 502.

[46] "Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects," vol. xxviii., page 141; and vol. xxx., page 278.

[47] Lindsay's "Merchant Shipping," vol. iv., page 434.

[48] "Proceedings of the Institution of Naval Architects," vol. xi., page 152.

[49] Lindsay's "Merchant Shipping," vol. iv., page 435.

[50] Pollock's "Modern Shipbuilding, and the Men Engaged in it," page 199.

[51] "Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers" (1901), page 608.

[52] Charnock's "History of Marine Architecture," vol. iii., page 245.

[53] The "Greenock Telegraph," May 4th, 1849.

[54] Sir Nathaniel Barnaby's "Naval Development of the Century," page 140.

[55] Sennett and Oram's "Marine Steam Engine," page 3.

[56] Fincham's "History of Marine Construction," page 332.

[57] Ibid., page 344.

[58] Sir Nathaniel Barnaby's "Naval Development of the Nineteenth Century," page 113.

[59] Sennett and Oram's "Marine Steam Engine," page 10.

[60] "Proceedings of the Institution of Naval Architects," vol. xxx., page 278.

[61] "Proceedings of the Institution of Naval Architects," vol. xxx., page 287.

[A] Battleship, Barfleur.

[B] Battleship, Canopus.

[C] Armoured Cruiser.

[62] "Encyclopædia Britannica" (1898 edition), vol. xi., page 288.

[63] "Engineering," vol. lxxix., page 577, May 5th, 1905.

[64] See "Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers" (1899), vol. cxxxviii., part 3.

[65] "The Engineer," vol. xcviii., page 15.

[66] "Engineering," vol. lxxx., page 415.

[67] "Engineering," vol. lxxx., page 420.

[68] From Lloyds' Register we classify, according to speed, the numbers of British and Foreign, and of Oversea and Channel, Steamers, of over 16 knots.

Speed.	British.	Foreign.	Oversea.	Channel.
Over 20 knots	42	26	17	51
19 to 20 knots	23	11	7	27
18 " 19 "	38	14	15	37
17 " 18 "	53	49	67	35
16 " 17 "	70	56	77	49
	226	156	183	199

[69] For further references to the rate of construction, see Engineering, vol. lx., page 813, where it is noted that ten vessels, aggregating 26,000 tons, were built for the China Navigation Company in nine months.

[70] [See page 22], ante.

[71] See Engineering, vol. lxxx., page 418.