Bow, McLachlan and Company
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Bow, McLachlan and Company was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding company that traded between 1872 and 1932.
Canadian Pacific "pocket liner" Princess Sophia (1912)
Hunt-class minesweeper HMS Camberley
Sudan on the River Nile in 2010
Marine steam engine
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A marine steam engine is a steam engine that is used to power a ship or boat. This article deals mainly with marine steam engines of the reciprocating type, which were in use from the inception of the
Bow, McLachlan and Company
…between 1872 and 1932. In 1872 William Bow and John McLachlan founded the company at Abbotsinch, Renfrewshire, where it made steering gear and light marine steam engines. In 1900 the company expanded into the building of small ships by taking over J. McArthur & Co's Thistle Works and shipyard at Paisley, also in…
Period cutaway diagram of a triple-expansion steam engine installation, circa 1918. This particular diagram illustrates possible engine cutoff locations, after the Lusitania disaster and others made it clear that this was an important safety feature.
Side-lever engine of SS Pacific (1849)
Side-lever engine of RMS Persia (1855)
Model of the twin side-lever engines of the 1836 Thames River steamboat Ruby