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The first recorded marine installation of a Scotch boiler was by Randolph, Elder & Co. in the SS

McGregor Lairdin 1862. Having been firdst installed in a Scottish ship, and given that the vast majority of steam and marine engineers were Scots, what else could they call it?

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