missing word from this phrase

[Red Snapper]

Can you help me complete this phrase. I'm a southerner so am unfamiliar with the term.
'Tossing about in a . . . from Harwich'

Thanks

[bravejordy]

steamer?

[fredpuli47]

The line is from Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Iolanthe'. It comes from a song of the Lord Chancellor who is describing a nightmare. It is sung feverishly, as though in panic:

" For you dream
You are crossing the Channel and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich
Which is something between a large bathing machine
And a very small second-class carriage"

Harwich is fairly 'south' itself. It's in the South East, on the coast of Essex ;)