The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-19 00:00:00

IN EV/ S PAPE

Naval and Military Intelligence.
THE NAVY. ICI
The target ship America, at Portsmouth, is having
a number of iron plates bolted on her sides, for trial
and experimental firing , which will furnish very
interesting data, from their varying thicknesses,
and especially so if fired at with spherical steel shot
or shell. The Mersey Ironworks send a 54-inch
plate for the Agincourt ; Messrs. Beale, of
Parkgate Works, near Sheffield, send one of 51
inches for the Lord Clyde; Messrs. John Brown
and Co., of the Atlas Steel and Iron Works, Shef-
field, send two for the Lord Warden of 4 inches
and 51 inches, an I also a 4A- inch for the Royal
Alfred. Messrs. Cammell and Co., of Sheffield,
send in their first selected plate, a, '3 0 of 51 inches,
for the Lord Clyde, which has been sent round to
Portsmouth from Pembroke dockya rd, after having
been sent to the Litter place from Sheffield. The
Milwall Company furnish a plate of 6 inches in
thickness for the BelLerophon, weighing 6 tons 16
cwt. 2 qrs., and there is eleo a small bent plate for
the Royal Alfred's pilothonce. The firing will take
place in Porchester creek about Tuesday next:
Her Majesty's peddle-yacht Victeeia and Albert
is having her boilers taken out along: ide Portsmouth
dockysrd, and will be supplied with a new set
which have been constructed for hear in the boiler
department of the steam factory.

The Osborne, Royal paddle yacht, is undergoing
a partial refit in No. 7 dock.

The Royal Alfred, converted screw frigate, to be
ironcased in the northern building slip of Ports.
month dockyard, has three gangs of shipwrights
employed on her, completing the riveting of her
upper deck plating, fitting the comings of her
hatchways, &c., preparatory to fitting her deck
planking. At present she is lying with her ways
and cradle in position for launching, for which,
however, no date has yet been fixed. The ship pill
be launched without any of her armour, and will be
then placed in the dock now occupied by the Royal
Sovereign, whe'-e she will be plated. The Royal
Alfred is a sister vessel to the Royal Oak and Prince
Consort—a R uoden ship wholly cased with arm our-
plates, but without the inner iron skin possessed by
iron-built iron-clads.

The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. E. St. J.
Garforth, to the Princess Royal, for service in the
Penguin; Sub-Lieut. Thomas E. Miller, to the
Princess Royal; Gordon Glennie and Edward
C. Moore, naval cadets, to the Princess Royal ;
Charles F. Gulliver, second master, to the Princess
Royal, for the Penguin; Robert E. Acklow ;
master's assistant, to the Princess Royal, for the
Penguin; C. Moreton, engineer, to the Indus„ as
supernumerary ; Thomas Robert Warren, Thomas
Henry Taylor, Croft G. Symons, and James Thom-
son, assistant-surgeons, promoted to be surgeons ;
Capt. F. B. P. Symons, to the Royal Adelaide, vice
Caldwell ; Sub-Lieut. Richard B. Croft, to the
Duncan ; Lionel Fanshawe, midshipman, to the
Princess Royal ; W. Stables, acting assist.. surg.,
additional to the Princess Royal, for the Penguin ;
James Tcrkington, assist.-engineer, to the Hector ;
John Elder, assist.-engineer, to the Euryalus ; and
Edward W. Newenham, clerk, additional to the
Princess Royal, for the Penguin.

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