Browns Nautical Almanac
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Please note that this title is only available directly from the
publisher
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Bibliographic Notes |
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While there are four excellent books already published on Scott's,
this volume concentrates on the family members rather than the
company as such.
The contents - compiled by William Kane - follow closely the
thesis submitted by the late Dr. Johnston F. Robb to Glasgow
University in 1993, which traces the lives of John II, John III
and John IV, under whom the company rose from obscurity to
become world renowned.
Scott's of Greenock grew from a small family business building
and repairing Herring Busses in 1711 to leading the world in
both merchant and naval shipbuilding, building surface and
subsurface vessels to the highest standards.
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| From 1970 onwards, the company and the rest of
the industry declined until finally in 1993, no longer under the control
of the family, the gates closed permanently thus ending a great
relationship between the people of Greenock and the Scott Family
Enterprise. The included companion data DVD contains a wealth of
additional material - over 1400 files totalling almost 2GB of documents,
tables and photographs. |
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