Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock

A Century's Work for the Navy.
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|HE work for the Navy by the Scotts
began with the building, in 1803, of a
sloop-of-war named The Prince of Wales ;
a photograph from the model of this
vessel is reproduced on Plate XIII. Since
the construction of this ship the firm
have carried out many important
Admiralty contracts, including the first machinery made in
Scotland for a dockyard-built ship, the first steam frigates
built in the North, the first " Dreadnought " battleship, and
the first submarine boat to be built on the Clyde. The Scotts
were also pioneers in the design and construction for the British
Navy of submarines propelled by turbines. Thus they had
contributed many important ships, representative of each of
the various classes, to the British Fleet, which after one hundred
and ten years of peace upon the sea was called upon again to
defend our Empire. With its traditional efficiency, alike in
materiel and personnel, the Navy once more established the
supremacy of Britain on all seas.
If in this connection we devote more attention to materiel,
it is not because we underrate the strategical and tactical skill
displayed in the many engagements with the enemy or the
heroism proved by officers and men in combat. Those deeds
of imperishable memory belong to other records : here we are