The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-12 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
Orders have been issued to prepare the following arma-
ment for each of the iron-clad frigates Minotaur, Agin-
_

court, and Northumberland :—Upper deck, four 100
pounder guns (6k tons each) ; main deck, four 300 pounder
guns (12 tons each), and 18 100 pundirs of the same
weight and description as the upper deck 100 pounders.
All the guns, both on the main and upper decks, will be
mounted on slide carriages. The three frigates which figure
in the Navy List as 38 gun ships will thus, in fact, carry
only 26 guns each.
A naval court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's
ship Victory at Portsmouth on Saturday, and again by
adjournment yesterday for the trial of Lieut. Frederick W.
Inglefield, lately invalided from her Majesty's screw troop-
ship Tamar, on a charge of having been guilty of conduct
unbecoming an officer in drinking intoxicating liquors to
such an excess between the 12th of November and the 7th
of December, 1863, as to produce illness, by which he was
incapacitated for the performance of his duty on the 10th
December, 1863. The prosecution failed to prove its case,
and the Court, therefore, found the charge not proved, and
acquitted Lieut. Inglefield.
The Lyra, 9, screw (=vette, Commander Parr, was
officially inspected yesterday at Spithead by Vice-Admiral
Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.B , and will sail to. day for Ma-
deira and the Cape of Good Hope.

The Hector, iron frigate, Capt. G. W. Pre2dy, C:B

will be docked in the Warrior dock at Portsmouth to-day,
Four of her 95cwt 68 pounder guns, with their carriages,
two from each of the extreme ends of her main deck bat.

tery, have been taken out, together with her spare coppers,
topmasts, and other heavy spare gear, in order to lower the
line of flotation. For a vessel of such large tonnage the
Hector is wonderfully sensitive under the distribution and
alteration of her weights.
Commodore Hugh Dunlop, C. 8., having assumed the
duties of his appointment in Woolwich dockyard, yesterday

left Woolwich on leave of absence.
The three 20 ton muzzle loading rifled guns manufactured
at Lowmoor to the order of Captain Blakely, and success-
fully tested at Woolwich, for the service of the Russian
Government, have been shipped in the Victoria Docks for
St. Petersburg. The fourth gun, in which a rent was ills-
covered in the jacket at the extremity of the breech piece,
produced by its being too tightly shrunk on, is to be re-
turned to the factory and repaired.
The Research, 4, 1,253 tons, 200 horse power, the first of
the squadron of iron clad vessels now building from the
designs of Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, was
successfully undocked at Pembroke on Saturday, with the
whole of her armour plating complete, and her engines and
boilers on board. With her iron masts fitted and jury

rigged, and all her armour plating on, and about 100 tons
of ballast on board, the Research only drew 12ft. 2in., and
when complete, with the whole of her fitments, crew, stores,
and provisions, and ready for sea, she will draw less than
14ft., and will consequently be capable of entering any har-
bour in almost any part of the world. The Research is com-
pletely cased up to the upper deck with 41 inch armour, and
will be a full rigged seagoing ship. According to existing
arrangements she will leave Pembroke dock for Devonport
on Saturday next, in charge of Captain H. Paul, assistant
master attendant at that dockyard, and will there be fitted
for sea with all possible despatch. A new plan has been
adopted in the armour plating of the Research to prevent
galvanic action, according to a system introduced by Mr.
Reed, and the first vessel of the fleet of ironclads so treated.
This consists in completely sheathing the armour plating
below the water line with teak planking,which will have the
effect of preserving the armour from all galvanic action and
corrosion, and will enable the Research to be despatched on
foreign service for a lengthened period withconfidence. She
will carry only four guns, but these will be the 110
pounder Armstrongs, the arrangements for fitting which
on board are now being carried out under the
superintendence of Mr. Napier, from Woolwich
Arsenal. The completion of the Research will be followed
speedily by that of the Enterprise, which is somewhat less
heavily armour cased than the former vessel.
The iron cased screw steamship Royal Oak, 35, Capt. F.
A. Campbell,
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final
The paddlewheel steam sloop Salamander, 6, Commander
the Hon. John Carnegie, having on Saturday morning em-
barked additional marines and supernumeraries, left Ply-
mouth Sound in. the afternoon for her destination, Australia.
The screw steam gunboat Hind (tender to the Coastguard
ship Russell), having embarked stores at the Devonport
dockyard, left Plymouth Sound on Saturday for Plymouth.