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.Greta187676 012 09 3537.5Compound5874John Scott, Esq., C.B.Greta187784 012 69 6738.25"7678John Scott, Esq., C.B.Greta187890 014 09 6869.33Compound tandem10578John Scott, Esq., C.B.Ulva1879162 021 015 635011.08"27770F. A. Hankey, Esq.Griffin1879120 016 611 01529.8"13078C. E. Dashwood, Esq.Eagle187984 012 69 6777.7Compound7475Count Stackleberg, St. Petersburg.Retriever1884123 017 012 014411"21590O. Randall, Esq.Alca188780 614 010 09310Triple-expansion110160Colonel Malcolm, Poltalloch.Santanna1887180 024 015 649513.6"780150M. Louis Prat, Marseilles.Foros1891236 030 620 6117012.5"960160M. Kousenzoff, Moscow.Greta1892135 618 612 023011"280160John Scott, Esq., C.B.Kittiwake1893113 021 013 62109.55"185160Lord Carnegie.Lutra1894117 018 012 020010.75"250160Colonel Malcolm.Greta1895145 022 013 533811"340170John Scott, Esq., C.B.Erin1896252 031 620 6133015.6Triple-expansion, 4 cyl.2500180Sir Thomas Lipton, Bart.Tuscarora1897170 026 615 777512.5"1030170Wm. Clark, Esq., Paisley.Greta1898154 022 913 639312.25"480170John Scott, Esq., C.B.Lutra1899140 021 013 034811.65"480170Lord Malcolm of Poltalloch.Margarita1900272 036 628 0252217.1{Twin-screw, triple expansion, four cylinders in each engine}5200200A. J. Drexel, Esq., Philadelphia, U.S.A.Waihi190082 014 610 010210.3Triple-expansion130170J. Bulloch, Esq.Saevuna190176 414 69 3958.4Compound75130Maurice Bernard Byles, Esq.Grianaig1904160 023 914 043512.6Triple-expansion740190R. Sinclair Scott, Esq.Beryl1904160 025 014 650013.3"910200Baron Inverclyde.
TABLE VI.—GENERAL PARTICULARS OF PRINCIPAL STEAM YACHTS BUILT BY SCOTTS' SHIPBUILDING AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, LIMITED, GREENOCK.
TheErin, 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 onPlate 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 yachtBeryl, 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.