The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE ROYAL YACHT.—The defects of the Royal yacht
Victoria and Albert, Capt. Crispin, are ordered to be
made good for her Majesty's early excursion in 1853.
Some of our contemporaries seem doubtful as to
whether the Cressy, 80, building at Chatham, will be
converted into a screw-ship or not. There can be no
longer any doubt on the matter. There can be no justi-
fication for launching any ship without a screw propeller.
The Cressy was designed by a committee of. the late
School of Naval Architecture, and will be fitted with
engines of 400-horse power.

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DOe SMOtJTH, DEC. 6.
Her Majesty's steam-y .• 7 airy, Captain Cris
pin, came into harbour at; • _ t o'clock this morning
froth Cowes, with intewgell . . the Commander-in-
Chief that their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, the
Due de Brabant, and the. Comte de Flandres, would in-.
spect the dockyard during the morning. She returned
at half past 8 for the Royal visitors, who embarked in
her from Osborne-pier at 10 o'clock. Prince Albert's
standard and the Belgian Royal standard were hoisted
at the main of the yacht, and were saluted by the
Russian corvette-of-war Dvina, at Spithead, and the
Platform battery ; as also by the Victory on entering
this harbour. The Fairy was very skilfully laid along-
side of the dockyard sheer jetty, on which the Royal party
landed, where Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs and staff, and
the captains of the fleet, and officers of the dockyard were
in waiting to receive them, and escort them over the
establishment. Their Royal Highnesses were first con-
ducted to the Duke of Wellington, 131, in the steam
basin, receiving her machinery, on board which. they
went, and remained some time. From her they pro-
ceeded to the ships on the slips building—the Prince of
Wales, 120 ; Marlborough, 120 ; Royal Sovereign, 120 ;
Royal Frederick, 120 ; and Princess Royal. The steam
factory was also inspected ; after which the illustrious
party embarked at the north corner of the dockyard in
the Port Admiral's barge, and were conveyed on board
• the gunnery ship Excellent, Captain Chads, C. 8., who
exercised the crew in shell and shot firing at the targets,
and other duties. From the Excellent their Highnesses
proceeded to the Neptune, 120, Captain Scott, and in-
spected that ship, from which they went to the Blenheim,
60 (screw), Captain Henderson, C. 8., and inspected her
also. On leaving the Blenheim the Royal Princes and
party re-embarked in the Fairy, which conveyed them
back to Osborne, saluted as before.
The Leander, 50, Captain King, was brought into No.
2 dock to-day, to have her bottom cleaned, which was
found to be very foul.
The Monkey steam-vessel arrived this morning from
the eastward, with 30 marine artillerymen and supernu-
meraries.

PLYMOUTH, DEc. 6.

Her Majesty's steam vessel Spiteful, Commander
Charles Parker, was unmasted on Saturday. Her crew
will be paid off to-morrow.
The steam-frigate Magicienne, Captain Thomas Fisher,
was placed at her sailing moorings on Thursday.
The Nile, 90, is to be placed in dock and fitted with a
screw propeller.
A frigate or corvette of 28 or 36 guns was observed at
10 a.m. yesterday reaching down by the wind off the
harbour. She carried three royals, topgallant sails and
courses, square mainsail, jib and flyingjib, and, as her
masts raked considerably, she is supposed to be a foreign
Fman-of-war, probably belonging to Denmark.
A large paddle-wheel steam-packet, under all canvas
and steam, was observed going fast up Channel, inside
the Eddystone, at half-past 4 o'clock on Sunday after-
noon ; she was high out of the water, barque-rigged, had
painted ports, and looked like one of the Peninsular and
Oriental boats—probably the Madrid, from the Mediter-
ranean, for Southampton.

WOOLWICH, Dza..6,
-----scrPOINTMENTS;

Master.—Francis B. Henwood (1852), to the Dido,
18, at Devonport.
Surgeon.—Hugh O'Hagan, M.D. (1846), to the
Cruiser steam-sloop, at Woolwich.
Assistant-Surgeon.—J. M. Tronson (acting), to the
Victory flag-ship, at Portsmouth.
Clerk.—F. W. S. Ponsonby (1852), to the Furious
steam-frigate, at Portsmouth.
Commander Hyde Parker arrived at Woolwich Dock-
yard to-day at 12 o'clock noon, and immediately hoisted
his pendant on board the Cruiser steam-sloop, and issued
notices that he is in want of petty officers, able seamen,
and stokers, to serve in the fine sloop he has just com-
missioned.

The Fisgard, flag-ship of Commodore Henry Eden, is
in want of twenty-five boys who have been a year at
least at sea, but none under that period of service will
be entered at present.
A contract was entered into on Friday last at the Ad-
miralty by two eminent engineering firms for the con-
struction of eight pairs of engines, each pair to be of the
collective power of 400 horses, and all adapted for screw-
propelled ships of war. John Penn and Son have ob-
tained the contract for the 400-horse-power engines for
the Royal Albert, 120, building at Woolwich Dockyard,
and now decided to have new engines on John Penn and
Son's patent trunk principle, which gave such satisfac-
tion in the Agamemnon, 90, also built at this dockyard.
The engines, although nominally of 400-horse power,
will be made to work up to the power of 1,200 horses ;
but engines of 600 nominal horse power would have
been desirable in the Royal Albert, as she is a powerful
first class ship of war, and worthy of having engines
of equal power at least as the Agamemnon, the latter
vessel being fitted with engines of that power. The
other ships to be converted into screw steam-ships,
and fitted each with engines of 400-horse power by
John Penn and Son, are the Princess Royal, 90, building
at Portsmouth ; the Royal George, 120, at Sheerness ;
and the Euryalus, 50, building at Chatham. Messrs.
Maudeslay, Sons, and Field have contracted for the other
four pairs of engines of 400-horse power each, and they
are to be fitted with screw propellers for the following
ships of war :—The Exmouth, 90, building at Devonport;
the Clarence, 84, building at Devonport; the Cressy, 80,
building at Chatham; and the Majestic, 80, also building
at Chatham. The engines of 600-horse power, making
by John Penn and Son for the St. Jean d'Acre, 100, are
now nearly completed, and will be ready for commencing
fitting on board when she is launohed from Devonport
Dockyard, where she is building and nearly ready for
launching. The engines of the Royal Albert will be
ready in June next, by which time the vessel will be
ready for launching; and in the course of another year it
may be calculated that the following powerful ships will
be ready for sea, and all fitted with screw propellers :
ADDITIONS TO VIE SCREW STEAM NAVY IN 1853.
The Royal Albert l2O building at Woolwich
The Duke of Wellington l3l fitting at Portsmouth
to be converted at Sheer-
The Royal George l2O/
( ness.
The St. Jean d'Acre ...... 100 building at Devonport.
The Princess Royal... .90 building at Portsmouth.
The Agamemnon 9l fitting at Sheerness.
The Exmouth 9O building at Devonport.
The Clarence B4 building at Devonport.
The Sans Parcil Bl fitting at Devonport.
The Majestic BO building at Chatham.
The Cressy BO building at Chatham.
The Imperieuse
The Euryalus 5O building at Chatham.
50 fitting at Woolwich.

Making a total of 1,167 guns of large calibre.
The above vessels are all in so advanced a state that
there will be no difficulty in completing them next year
should any emergency arise to require their services,
and, with the vessels already fitted with screw propellers,
they will form one of the most powerful channel fleets
ever possessed by this country. The above list does not
include any of the guard-ships, or any of the ships now
building which are ordered to be fitted with engines
already in store, the Algiers, 90, building at Devonport ;
the Hannibal, 90, building at Deptford, and several
others, being ordered to be fitted with engines already
made for screw ships of war.

THE SCREW 90-GIIN Sun' AGAMEMNON.—The nomi-
nal horse-power of the Agamemnon, 91, screw-ship,
Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, at Sheerness, is 600, not
500, as stated in a contemporary. To state that she
can work up to more than double that power is a piece
of information that is vulgarly termed " a mare's nest ;"
the Agamemnon, we need scarcely say, is not fully
manned. Whoever heard of a ship being fully manned
at Sheerness ? Of her 850 officers and men, she has
barely one-half of her ship's company, and requires
about 300 blue jackets to make up her number. The
Agamemnon will be out of the hands of the engineers
by the 11th inst., and will be completed by the dockyard
by the 28th. In about a fortnight after that she will be
ready for sea.--Morning Herald.
THE 92-GUN SHIP LONDON.—We stated on Saturday
that the London, 92, Captain Mundy, was ordered to be
got ready for proceeding to Spithead. The authorities
are to report when she is in every respect ready to sail.
Her full complement we believe will be the same number
as in her sister ship Rodney, 820, not 850, as in the
Agamemnon, the latter being a screw-ship. There is no
foundation for the expectation that it was determined
she should remain at Sheerness until April. The ad-
vanced crew of the London is 445, but she is about 40
blue jacketa short of thin hunaber.-lid.