Punch,  51 (1866), 88.

"Lost to Sight, to Memory Dear!"

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Military Technology, Steamships, Commerce, Politics


    Noting the Admiralty's expenditure of 'twelve millions yearly' on the Royal Navy, which has resulted in 'no ships', suggests that 'our men of war' be called 'our invisibles' rather than 'our invincibles'.



© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020

Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]