The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-09 00:00:00

LAUNCH OP A PERUVIAN IRON-O&M
FRIGATE.

Yesterday the Independenoik an iron-plated
ship. menials( the principles of an armour-eased Amos-
frigate soda steam-ram, was launched from the handing.
yard of Masers. &muds Brothels, at Poplar. The ladm
paresis, whieh is a fine specimen of t►e port-We elms
of frigates, is 215 feet in 'meth, 44 feet 9 Mabee boas, sad
32 feet 6 inches depth, sad 'aerates 2,004 toss. She is
built entirely of iros, sad is mood with armour plates 441
inches WM from stem to stare, the arrow reaching down
to about tour feet below the water lloe sad op to the aria
deck, ton sod att, while ia the midships of the mesa Ie
extends up to the tamale of the upper deck. Behind the
armour, sad bottom ft end she ekla et the ship, s thick
kicking of teak Is worked lain the usual way. The stem of
the vessel le coadructed to be used as e ram wises
'squired, for which pumas the bowsprit is hinged, se as to
he easily brought is-beard. To seal& the mend to make
better nee of bar sails oo bet voyage from bore to Per;
or under other circumstance' when railing ia more
desirable eau steaming, the screw is made to lift, sad this
his boon &maned without interruption to the snows
shish encircles the Mara, and without interlock', with the
store gas. TM ennensent Is to cassia entirely of Mod
gum, oe Sir William Armstrong's shunt principle; of these
there will be, ea the main or fighting deck, twelve
70-pounders, each weighing four toes, sad on the upper
deck two large pivot gam, leash littposaders, welsh*
amen iOllll, and capable of firing in a line with the keel.
The bottom of the vessel is double, and perfectly water-
tight, t►e chamber lbws formed being istaaded to beam!
as a ballast tank, to keep the height of pork sills a seetwo.
theism's from the water as the teat la beret oat teen Ma
bunker!, se aleo to serve sees extra seausity in the meat
of the bottom of the vessel getting bilged or otherwise

damaged.
In addition to a vat number of transverse bulkhead'
(two of which are covered with answer), there an aloe I
longitudinal or wing bulkheads, to preserve the deltaic.
the vessel eves if the armour sides should be parsed, and
to Arable repairs to the armour afar so action to be eerily
effected.
The vessel will be fitted with a pair of mew mass of
the collative nominal power of 560 boas, which bare bees
prepared fee her by lithars.J. Peon and lane of Greenwich.
The speed expected so to obtained is 12 knots per hoer
with all armament, acres, and coal oa board, that is in
therongh sea-going trim, when she will any her port sills
seas fat cot of water.
The diamesiene and form of the ship on each as to war-
rant the expectation that Ina been kerma of her that she
will be partaalerly bandy sad easy at irmeipmeat, and a
great acquisition to the Peruvian say. Thete was a large
aloha of ladies sad ',stamen coneected with Peru and
the other South American republics present to withal the
launch. The ceremony of naming wan performed by
Madame Benda, the wife of the Pentvisa Waiter.
While at the stocks the hull bed a somewhat unwieldy
apparent*, owing to tbo comparative shorter" of her
extreme stem and stern dimeasions with bar breadth, and
the heavy bilge neessaary for flotation, considering the
heavy weight ohs has to carry. This objection, how-
ear, mashed the moment she touched the river, into
which she glided with the sus and grace of • swan.
aid
whoa fairly resting upon the water • more sightly or ship-
shape craft could hardly Do conceived.
The general inspection of the easel while building, she
arrangement of the armament, and ell the naval details
have bees entrusted by the Peruvian government to Captain
Gun* of the Peruvian trey, who has been appetite:l to
command her.
She is as soon as completed to pealed to Callao, when
she will take up her station ; but Osprisin Garcia ways be
, lakeside to said the Gaps Hers parse, and to ran her
thrall the Skate of Wafts.

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