engine-vessels

Updated: May 21, 2025

Early in 1852 Charles Newton was going to Greece on a voyage of discovery, and wanted John Ruskin to go with him. But the parents would not hear of his adventuring himself at sea "in those engine-vessels." So Newton went alone, and "dug up loads of Phoenician antiquities."

W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood - The Life of John Ruskin