Crossing the English Channel by steam: the ship the "Elise", caught in a storm at sea between Newhaven (England) and Le Havre (France), in March 1816. Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

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