The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-29 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADYTILALIT, MAT 27. —APPOINTWIIIITS. --COM-
maodnr Linder) Mae, Luc in commasel is 1861 el the
Waterman, at China, to the ooromud et the Maw
wa 11,
sores sloop, la the Ifediterranese, vies T. N. T.
promoted.
Master Charles Parkinson. to the St. George, 72, for
service se chief °Nos of the Falmouth covet guard Manias.
Burgers Arthur W. W. Babington, Lie et the Hawks.
60, at Ireland, to the Indus. wardship at Davenport.
dewed Muter Willie's Nom late of the Banger, 5, on
the west oast of Atria% to the MOMS, gunboat, at 117.
mouth.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 28.
The Maori, sailing transport, arrived at fipithead
yesterday morning, from New Zeslawl, with military in-
valida.
The Racoon, 22. screw corvette, Oapiain the Count
Gleielten, arrived at Spithead this morning from the Medi-
terranean. She has brought a few wintery wralide, who
will be removed to-motrow to Ns4 Hospital.

LAUNCH OP THB IRONCLAD PRIVATE or
WAR, LORD WARDS,.

The launching of the fine irommeed frigate Lord
Wanks. the Wet of the bugs wooded mutotir-plattid vessels
of war designed by Mr. R. J. Bead. the Chid Constructor
of the Navy, built at Chatham, took plan at that dockyard
on Batarday aftermath with the most complete surcess,
the premix* of an unusually large ooneoures el spectetors.
The Lord Warden was cammeadd early in 18031, sad has,
therefore, been little more than twelve months building,
grate of program which ia the more remarkable as showing
the vast resouross possessed by Chatham Dockyard for
iron shipbuilding, when it is stated that within the same
period the Bellerophon, en equally large tics vassal,
was completed and launched from the isms tomb-
lialunse• The Lord Warden is the first el • due of wooden'
frigates of, war designed to be as improvoneat us the
Boys] OA, Prince Consort, and verde of that dam, white
are plated over for the pester portion of their broadmidm
with armour of 44 imam is Welcome, bolted to a timber
hackies of 294 inches. The Lord Warden, oe the other
hand, will be ensued in her most vulnerable parts with
armour plates of fig imams in thickness, with as inner Pate,
spin, of l inch thick, the whole laid on • teak and conk
locking of 31g litchis in this:hetet The Lord Warden,
also, Is to be driven by imagines of pest power, so
as to enable her to prove ens of the faded ships
in the navy, not eves excepting the Warrior—aad
as front her form of coostruedoa she will be very buoyant,
eves is bad weather, there is little doubt that all the anti-
cipations reapecting her will be reeked. In the °untrue-
too of this fine fried* several impartial altegations, which
undoubtidilLtyitr be considered impeovessests, have tom
intro.lood her designer. She is, le the first place( built
with mach floors and brooder seetioes than is the
use with say other of the ire-glade hitherto
the form of her build beia what is sow ksoTmaaralthe
shape, in eostrediatinetioe to the V shaped principle. This
plan will, it is ccolidently satidpated, teed mach to emir
teract, if sot to altogether loess that Modeecy to roll in
beam sea sow Do observable in the Warrior, the Royal Oak,
Hector, and, ia fact, all the previously coestenoted
comprising our unsold fleet. The Lord War-
den is also built on the ram system, with
the beg swan-breasted beak protruding some
distend beyond her stem. nadir the water. This pars of
the stem is to be armed with an isennous soda cleaver-
&heed wespos. weighing between eaves sad eight tons, for
demobs asunder the bottom of soy hostile vessel, should
the Lord Warden ever be seed es • ram, for which her
great site and madman power eminently qualify her.
Towering above her protruding stem is en enormoes bow
battery, erected co her spar desk, which will he armed with
four guns of large calibre, to are right sheed, and in • lino
with the vessel's kseL These bow-cheeses will prove d an
enormous advantege la soy engagement with • hostile
vessel. For dolomite purposes the Lord Warden, as already
stated, will be armed with plates el 54 Mabee in thiehmes,
which will be carried mead the vessel well down under
the water, sell 2 feet above It, seedy all mead. Above
the battery, where the easel 44 inch armour will be=
an extra ire-skis plating Ig inch in thickness is
opts the frames of the ship, behind the outer planking, the
toed thickness of iron. teak, and oak, which form the aides
of the Lard Warilea being 37 inches at and shove the water-
line, and 33 inches is wake of the iss-dsok battery. All the
plates for her armour have bees uteaufaetured at the Atlas
works, libeffield, by the firm of Messrs. J. Brown and Co.,and
these are of the best potable description of rolled gees.
The whole of her desks me laid with iron plates, severed
with wood to countered the Weds of red-hot shoe or
molten metal falling on them. The deck Demo consist et
stout girders of iron, which add Imam* to the strewth.
stiffness, sod rigidity d the vesseL For offensive puppets
the Lord Warden, amortliog to prised intentions, will
carry as armament of 20 of the 84 to 100-penader
dammed guns on her main-deck, sod 4 d the 110-posader
rifled Armstrong guns on her upper desk ; but it is probable
that her armament will undergo some alteration so as to
allow her to carry caeca mote of the 300-pounder Anodise(
guns. All the portholes are eonstrueted as the improved
principle, and very narrow, admitting, bower, the nos
being trowel to a high degree. The WOO of the portodis
from the water, at load draught, will be M. Ito. All the
decks are roomy sod lofty._ giving ample space for aleaceo-
vriog the guns. The following are the piaci* dieter
nom, &0., of the Lord Wards :—Lesgth betimes the per-
pendictilars, 280 ft. ; length of keel for tocusge, 233 ft. Ilia.;
extreme breadth, Wt. Bin. ; breadth for Manage, b7ft 2in.;
breadth moulded, Slit. 4in. ; depth is hold, 10ft. gin. ;
draught d water—forward 24ft. ilia., aft Oft. ; diadem-
moot, in toss, 7,870; berthing. in to, 4,087 26-91. After
shipping the heart Postiou d her We." adlmscbasTe
and heriremasts. she will he piano is doge, to have
remainder of her 1,400 toes of armour belted to her sides,
and to be completed far sea. After the Lana the whole
the workmen were greeted a holiday and a select party
were eutertained at ltutobeon by Captain Stewart, 0,3., at
his resideaos in the dockyard.