English: British engraving, a political satire cartoon by Isaac Cruikshank, titled A New Catamaran Expedition!!!", 1805. It is a detailed scene with various speech balloons.

An Englishman (representing Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger) looks on from Walmer Castle, as a fleet of sailboats (not actually drawn as catamarans head out to attack a French fort across the English Channel.

The Englishman is saying, "If this does not succeed I'll never Catamaran again as long as I live."

Ship The Bilingsgate Cutter, in foreground, carries four fishwives (back then a shrewish woman stereotype) to terrorize the French. They are armed with a "potatoe magazine" (sack of potatoes, perhaps to throw) and two bottles of "royal gin" aimed like cannon. The women are shouting: "We'll pepper you scoundrels", "Give it 'em well, my hearties.", "Yea ye dirty Blackguards we'll soon be with you.", and "Look at our ammunition, you poltroons."

Coming from the French fort is the reply, "Begar dese le Catamarans wid a Vengeance." (apparently eye dialect for something like "Bugger this, catamarans with a vengeance"). The point of the piece was to suggest that the unruly fishwives would be enough to defeat the French, and to shame the PM for inaction.