Punch,  11 (1846), 258.

British Liners

Anon

Genre:

Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Nationalism


    Interprets news of a submarine telegraph being laid at Portsmouth as Britannia literally 'ruling the waves'.



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