The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.
The Speedwell gunboat, 428 tons and 80 horse
power, now fitting for service in the inner basin at

Woolwich, was yesterday commissioned by Mr. G.
Metter for Commander George Cottam, late of the

Recruit, the officers and crow of the latter vessel

having been transferred to the Speedwell.

The

crews are berthed for the present on board the re-
ceiving ship Salactic., as the Speedwell is not cx-

petted to be ready for sea before the end of October.
Her armament will consist of one 68-pounder,

95cwt. pivot gun, two 24-pounder howitzers, and

two 20-pounder Armstrong guns. Commander

Cottam has borne the brunt of much hard and dan-

gerous service. His appointment to the gunboat

Speedwell is therefore a matter of surprise, and is

accounted for on the supposition that the Speed-
well is the only vessel of that class now to be com-

missioned, and that the gallant Commander's ser-
vices will be requited shortly by his removal to a

more honourable command.

The steam storeship Industry, Master Comman-
der Yonel, has returned to Woolwich from her trial
trip after repairs, and is under orders to sail this
morning in charge of Mr. Barnes, Admiralty pilot,
at 5 o'clock, on her voyage for the West Coast of
Africa. On going down to Woolwich from the Vic-
tualling-yard at Deptford, she was struck by a
brig, which was seriously damaged• The only in-
jury the Industry sustained was the destruction of
her lifebuoy, which was replaced at Woolwich.
The sailing ship Rosabund, Captain Arthur
Symmers, yesterday made fast inside the T pier at
Woolwich Arsenal, and commenced shipping 1612-

and 10th
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The Pelorus, 21, screw corvette, 1,464 tons, and
RouyratieAnarnticleiseryforattmheo4ntthre,
400-horse power, ordered by the Board of Admi-
ralty to be commissioned immediately, at Devon-
port, by Capt. Henry Boys, will have a complement
of 260 officers and men. Tkie Pelorus was launched

at Devonport in 1856, and was first commissioned
at that port by Capt. F. B. P. Seymour in July,
1857, and sailed from England in September fol-
lowing, and was employed on the East India, China,
and Australian stations until paid off in December,
1862. In March last she was placed in the north
basin at Keyham, to have her machinery taken out,
preparatory to her defects being made good. She
was taken out of dock in June and was masted on
the 13th of July, and returned to Keyham to be
rigged, stored, and armed for the Ist class reserve.
She made a trial of her machinery on the 28th of

August, and returned into harbour. Capt. Boys
served in the Edinburgh, 72, as midshipman, and
was much applauded during the operations on the
coast of Syria, and was wounded at the bombard-
ment of St. Jean d'Acre. After further serving on
particular service at the Cape of Good Hope, on the
coast of Africa, and on the south-east coast of
America, on the 14th of May, 1853, he was pro-
moted to the command of the Express, 6, on the
last-named station, aid paid her off in September,
1856. He obtained post rank on the 17th of
October, 1857.

2,812 tone
and 'iliseool-jahOirasre' p3o'w ierro, screw
vgt troopship, 2,812
recently launched
at Millwall, is being brought forward for commis-
sion at Sheerness with all possible despatch. Capt.
Fred. Henry Stirling and Mr. Edwin Wise, master,
have been appointed by the Board of Admiralty to
the Cumberland, 24, guardship of the steam rE-

serve at Sheerness, for service in this ship. She
has been surveyed by Capt. Mends, C,8,, Director
of Transports, assisted by Capt. Wise, the Capt.-
Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard, together
with other officials, and the result was pronounced
Very satisfactory. Capt. Stirling obtained the
rank of Lieutenant in May, 1848, and served in
the St. Vincent from November following until
April, 1840, when he removed into the Castor, 36,
and served at the Cape of Geod Hope until the close
of 1851. He served in the Penelope, 16, on the
West Coast of Africa, from February, 1852, until
promoted to Commander, March, 25, 1854 ; com-
manded the Wasp, 13, on the South-East Coast of
America station from July, 1856, until paid off at
the close of 1858 ; and was commander of the Hero,
91, attacLed to the Channel Squadron, and on par-
ticular service from March, 1859, until promoted to
post rank, November 19, 1860.
The screw steam sloop Wrangler, 4, Commander
H. H. Beamisb, which left Sierra Leone, August 1 ;
St. Vincent, 13th; and Fayal, 30th, arrived in Ply-
mouth.s,
Leone the screw steam troopship Megaera, 6, Com-
mander
Samuel H, Henderson, and the screw steam
gun vessel
Sparrow, 5, C
Cochrane. Th
ddlewheel steam frigate Odin,
16, Commodoree •paommander the Hon. Ernest
Lord John Hay, left for England
on the 21st of Julyre *
with
the 9th of August troops, out-
ward bound.
The The Himalaya was off St.
Vincent on
American steam-sloop Kearsage
was at rapt'.
The Wrangler has brought home
four naval invalids from the squadron, and five sea-
men belonging to the ship Cariboo, of Liverpool,
Capt. Cameron, 13, b 1
..onging to Samuel Lawrence and
CO., which took fire 360 miles west of St. Vincent,
on the 20th of July. The Cariboo was from Liver-
pool bound to Bombay,
with coals and machinery.
The mate was in the hold
with a lantern, and fell
over a coil of rope. The lantern dropped from his
hand, and set some
26 in all, were turpentine on fire. The crew,
-
picked up by a Scotch bark 100
miles west of St. Vincent. The Wrangler expe-
rienced fine weather until Saturday, when enter-
ing the Channel, whichsince strong northerly and
westerly winds have prevailed. Several cases of
fever have occured on the
proved fatal, and the crew
passage, but none have
ar
The Wrangler was commissioned on the 4th of
1860, and has be constantly engaged on
the coaste
appointmentse
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following of Africa.
The .
made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Capt. James
C. Provost, to the Gibraltar
; Lieut. Stratford Tuke,
Lieut. the Hon. Francis G
• Crofton Lieut. Sebas-
tian Gassiot, and Lieut. Cecil -.
-•E‘ F. W. Johnson, to the
Pelorus ; Lieut Henry S. Sano .3
ys, to the Speedwell;
Staff Commander Benjamin Renaud, to the Gib-
raltar; Christopher Albert, master, to the Pelorus ;
R. M. Curry, master, to the speedwell ;John Jones,
master, to the Scylla ; James
R. Anderson, surg.,
to the Pelorus ; William Edney, surg., to the
Scylla; Charles M'Shane, surg,, to the Gibraltar ;
Dr. Robert Hay, acting assist..surg., to the
-
Pelorus ; William Carleton, acting
the Scylla; Dr. Walter Reid, .
acting assist.-surg.,
to the Gibraltar; Albert T. m Roberts,assist.-surg., to
Iv. . h paymaster,
Warburton, paymaster,
Frederick E, Perkis and
C. Gray, paymaster,
to the Gibraltar. ; Alfred Clements, assist.-pay-
master, ctPyoellita°hr;eus :Tchyolml
aft:
paymasters, to the :ir
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shtt the
Gib-
raltar; James E. Ray, assist-paymaster, to the
Pelorus ;E.S. M. Power, assist.-paymaster, master, in
Alfed G. Montagu, assist.-
charge, to the Speedwell; James B. Rawlings,
easier., Paymaster, to the Excellent;
John W. Sec •
combe, clerk, to the Pelorus ; Charles G. Ancell,
clerk to the Scylla; C. B. Grant and Richard
Harris, clerks, to the Gibraltar ; Charles J. Bolt,
assist.•elerk, to the Speedwell ; John B_ Creagh,
assist: clerk, to the Pelorus ; Henry---- W. Hunt, assist.-
clerk to the Scylla; Abraham Turner and John D.
Taylor, assist.-clerks, to the Gibraltar; and F. E.
Thompson, master's-assist.. to the Speedwell.
The following appointments have been made in
the Royal Naval Reserve : To be Lieutenants—
Henry Welchnuin Cing and William Stewart.