Beyond the machine shop are the slip-ways, twelve in number, where vessels of an aggregate tonnage of 40,000 tons have frequently been seen at one time in various stages of construction. On these slip-ways have been built the well-known mail steamer _City of Rome_ and the steamship _Normandie_, the largest vessel of the French mail service. Here also were built for the Anchor Line the _Anchoria_, the _Devonia_, the _Circassia_, and the _Furnessia_; for the Ducal Line, the _Duke of Devonshire_, the _Duke of Buccleuch_, the _Duke of Lancaster_, the _Duke of Buckingham_, and the _Duke of Westminster_. From these slip-ways also emanated the _Ganges_ and the _Sutlej_ for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company as well as the _Eden_ and the _Esk_ for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. For the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, the _Ben my Chree_, the _Fenella_, and the _Peveril_. For the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belge Américaine, the s.s. _Belgenland_ and _Rhyhland_. For the Castle Line, the s.s. _Pembroke Castle_, and for the Société Générale de Transports Maritimes à Vapeur of Marseilles, the s.s. _Navarre_ and _Bearn_. Here were also produced the _Kow Shing_ for the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, and the _Takapuna_ for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, besides many other vessels well known to the mercantile world. For the Admiralty this yard has turned out seven gun-boats, namely, the _Foxhound_, the _Forward_, the _Grappler_, the _Wrangler_, the _Wasp_, the _Banterer_, and the _Espoir_, as well as four torpedo mooring ships. Leaving the shipbuilding department, the visitor passes through the afore-mentioned sub-way to the engine works, which occupies an area of ground equal to that of the shipyard proper. To the left may be noticed the coppersmith’s shop, the brass foundry, and the engineer’s smithy. The Foundry has seven ordinary pot furnaces, and one large reverberatory air furnace for castings of the heaviest class. The smithy is well fitted up with hammers suitable for the work. On the opposite side of the ground are two buildings, the one to the left containing the iron foundry and boiler shop. The foundry, 250 ft. by 150 ft., provided with overhead travellers, is capable of turning out the largest castings required for the monster marine engines of the present day. The boiler shop is the same size, and possesses the most modern contrivances for the skilful and economical execution of work, and it contains a complete equipment of hydraulic riveting machines, both fixed and portable, the largest having a gap of 10 feet and a pressure of 90-lbs.