A Swimming Match
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Transport, Engineering, Steamships |
Likenening the Great Britain steamship to a swimmer, reports that, on being launched from her Bristol dock, 'her timbers shivered very much' but she 'soon struck out, smoking all the time'. | |
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