Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock - Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.

THE "MARGARITA."

THE "TUSCARORA."

TABLE VI.—GENERAL PARTICULARS OF PRINCIPAL STEAM YACHTS BUILT BY SCOTTS' SHIPBUILDING AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, LIMITED, GREENOCK.

Name.	Date of Construction.	Length.	Breadth.	Depth.	Displacement in Tons.	Speed.	Type of Engines.	Indicated Horse-power.	Boiler Pressure.	Owner.
		ft. in.	ft. in.	ft. in.		knots.		lb.
Greta	1876	76 0	12 0	9 3	53	7.5	Compound	58	74	John Scott, Esq., C.B.
Greta	1877	84 0	12 6	9 6	73	8.25	"	76	78	John Scott, Esq., C.B.
Greta	1878	90 0	14 0	9 6	86	9.33	Compound tandem	105	78	John Scott, Esq., C.B.
Ulva	1879	162 0	21 0	15 6	350	11.08	"	277	70	F. A. Hankey, Esq.
Griffin	1879	120 0	16 6	11 0	152	9.8	"	130	78	C. E. Dashwood, Esq.
Eagle	1879	84 0	12 6	9 6	77	7.7	Compound	74	75	Count Stackleberg, St. Petersburg.
Retriever	1884	123 0	17 0	12 0	144	11	"	215	90	O. Randall, Esq.
Alca	1887	80 6	14 0	10 0	93	10	Triple-expansion	110	160	Colonel Malcolm, Poltalloch.
Santanna	1887	180 0	24 0	15 6	495	13.6	"	780	150	M. Louis Prat, Marseilles.
Foros	1891	236 0	30 6	20 6	1170	12.5	"	960	160	M. Kousenzoff, Moscow.
Greta	1892	135 6	18 6	12 0	230	11	"	280	160	John Scott, Esq., C.B.
Kittiwake	1893	113 0	21 0	13 6	210	9.55	"	185	160	Lord Carnegie.
Lutra	1894	117 0	18 0	12 0	200	10.75	"	250	160	Colonel Malcolm.
Greta	1895	145 0	22 0	13 5	338	11	"	340	170	John Scott, Esq., C.B.
Erin	1896	252 0	31 6	20 6	1330	15.6	Triple-expansion, 4 cyl.	2500	180	Sir Thomas Lipton, Bart.
Tuscarora	1897	170 0	26 6	15 7	775	12.5	"	1030	170	Wm. Clark, Esq., Paisley.
Greta	1898	154 0	22 9	13 6	393	12.25	"	480	170	John Scott, Esq., C.B.
Lutra	1899	140 0	21 0	13 0	348	11.65	"	480	170	Lord Malcolm of Poltalloch.
Margarita	1900	272 0	36 6	28 0	2522	17.1	{Twin-screw, triple expansion, four cylinders in each engine}	5200	200	A. J. Drexel, Esq., Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Waihi	1900	82 0	14 6	10 0	102	10.3	Triple-expansion	130	170	J. Bulloch, Esq.
Saevuna	1901	76 4	14 6	9 3	95	8.4	Compound	75	130	Maurice Bernard Byles, Esq.
Grianaig	1904	160 0	23 9	14 0	435	12.6	Triple-expansion	740	190	R. Sinclair Scott, Esq.
Beryl	1904	160 0	25 0	14 6	500	13.3	"	910	200	Baron Inverclyde.

The Erin, now owned by Sir Thomas Lipton, Bart., was designed and built in 1896 for a Sicilian nobleman and was purchased later by the popular baronet and sporting yachtsman. One of the largest vessels of her time, she was 250 ft. long, and of 1330 tons displacement. The four-cylinder, carefully-balanced engines, of 2500 horse-power, gave her a sea speed of 15-1/2 knots. A view of this well-known yacht is given on [Plate XXI]., facing page 63.

Much might be written about the decoration of these yachts; but it may suffice to give illustrations of the dining- and drawing-rooms in the steam yacht Beryl, owned by the Right Hon. Baron Inverclyde. The saloons are in the Old-English style, and are treated with decorative freedom, but with strict simplicity. The walls in both cases are framed in solid figured white Austrian wainscot oak, highly finished and polished. The drawing-room has silk tapestry panels, relieved with chaste carving on the window canopies, dado rail and mantelpiece, and divided with bevelled and carved pilasters, with carved Corinthian capitals. In the dining-room, on the other hand, there is no tapestry, the whole being of oak, suitably carved. In the ports there are large plate-glass windows, fitted with Greenwood springs. In each room there is a large cupola skylight, which, with its rich stained glass, gives a fine decorative effect. The drawing-room cupola is fitted with a brass mushroom ventilator. The ceiling in each case is of yellow pine, moulded, ribbed, and beamed in the Tudor style, and painted flat white, picked out with gold.