May 13, 2021
The Americans have an idea that they are very far ahead of us in steam navigation, a great error which I could not persuade them of. In the first place, their machinery is not by any means equal to ours; in the next, they have no sea-going steam vessels, which after all is the great desideratum of steam navigation.
— Frederick Marryat, Diary in America (1839)
View of Her Majesty's Steam Frigate Cyclops, off Spithead under Admiralty Orders, an 1840 print of HMS Cyclops (launched 1839), engraving and etching by Henry Papprill after W.A. Knell.