The sentiment, if not the plant and capital, of the engineering world, were against the introduction of the screw.

After the vessel had returned from her circumnavigation of Great Britain, she was sent to Oporto, and performed the voyage in sixty-eight and a half hours, then held to be the quickest voyage on record.

She was then sent to the Texel at the request of the Dutch Government.

She went through the North Holland Canal, visited Amsterdam, Antwerp, and other ports; and everywhere left the impression that the screw was an efficient and reliable power in the propulsion of vessels at sea.
Shipbuilders, however, continued to "fight shy" of the screw.

The late Isambard Kingdon Brunel is entitled to the credit of having first directed the attention of shipbuilders to this important invention.