---------------------+----------+----------++----------+---------- Speed. | British. | Foreign. || Oversea. | Channel. ---------------------+----------+----------++----------+---------- Over 20 knots | 42 | 26 || 17 | 51 19 to 20 knots | 23 | 11 || 7 | 27 18 " 19 " | 38 | 14 || 15 | 37 17 " 18 " | 53 | 49 || 67 | 35 16 " 17 " | 70 | 56 || 77 | 49 +----------+----------++----------+---------- | 226 | 156 || 183 | 199 ---------------------+----------+----------++----------+---------- [Illustration: decoration] Efficiency: Design: Administration. [Illustration: decoration] Having reviewed the history of the firm, and dealt briefly with the results obtained by some of the modern steamers constructed by them, we propose now to describe the Works in order to indicate the measures adopted to secure efficiency in design and construction of all types of ships and machinery. Organisation and administration are as important factors towards this end as the mechanical methods and appliances adopted, and it may be well, therefore, to deal first with these. The firm have been responsible for the design of almost every merchant ship constructed by them. Success has been rendered more certain by the possession of carefully-collated records, the product of an organised system of working up all data, of tackling new problems, of making calculations regarding any scientific question, and of studying contemporaneous work as described in the technical press and in papers read at technical institutions. This continuous investigation produces a wealth of suggestion, which enables the chiefs of the respective departments to determine how far practice may be improved; and thus there is steady progress not only in design but in constructional methods. A well-selected technical library, from which the staff can borrow books, also contributes to the same end. [Illustration: Plate XXXVII. SHIPBUILDING. (_See page 100._)]