Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Military Technology, War, Steamships, Electricity

    Upholds the superiority of ironclad ships over wooden ones, emphasising the fact that they can carry 'more and heavier guns' and a larger 'invading force', and that they can sustain longer bombardments from such weapons as Armstrong guns. Noting the difficulty of penetrating ironclad ships, wonders how such ships are going to fight, suggesting that they might do so with the highly explosive 'fulminating silver' or 'Some new discovery in electricity'. However, Punch also suggests that opposing ironclads might 'part in peace'.