Account of the qualities and uses of coal tar and coal varnish. With certificates from shipmasters and others / [Anon].
- Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Account of the qualities and uses of coal tar and coal varnish. With certificates from shipmasters and others / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ ^3 ] Therefore would recommend it to any other fhip-mafter, that, upon trial, they would find it much to their intereft graving their fhips bottoms with faid tar. (Signed) GEO. RITCHIE. Copy of a Certificate, Walter Goalin Ship-builder. North Leith, January 8, 1784. npHlS is to certify, that I have payed feveral veffels bottoms with coaLtar$ and fome of them having made voyages through the northern iflands, and others to Spain, I found, at their return home, their bottoms were clean, and no barnacles, nor vermin of any kind, on any of them WALTER GOALIN. Copy of a Letter from John Fergufcn, Copper-fmith% to Lord Dundonald. My Lord, Edinburgh, Jan. 23^, 1784. T Have been in bufmefs upwards of 20 years, A have often ufed different kinds of japan for black iron coal buckets, fcuttels, fire pans, duff pans, &c. with a number of other things in the plate-iron way \ and having tried your coal tar, I found it to be by far the beff of any thing ever invented for that purpofe, which I am willing to fliow to the Public and would recommend your tar as the beff preiervative for plate-iron that has ever been yet tried. I am, Your Lordfbip’s moft obedient, And very humble fervant, JOHN FERGUSON.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30371569_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
