"There she lay all the day"
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Steamships, Engineering |
Discusses news that the SS Great Britain is 'lying upon the gridiron at Liverpool'. Believes this is 'as bad as a five-barred gate to a vessel like the Great Britain' but suggests that allowing the ship 'a few bars' rest' on a gridiron is desirable after enduring a 'heavy' launch. | |
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