The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-27 00:00:00

7HE NAVY.

Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamvessel
Caradoc, in King William Dock, at Woolwich, is
ordered to be pushed forward for service, to replace
the despatch vessel Banshee, in the Mediterranean
station. She is to be plated internally with Day's
composition. A cylinder for- the Caradoc was yes-
terday successfully cast in the factory at Woolwich,
under the superintendence of Mr. Partridge, acting
chief engineer of the yard. The weight of the
metal employed was 16 tone. The screw steamsloop
Columbine, built at Deptford and partially fitted at
Woolwich was on Wednesday despatched from
Woolwich to Sheerness to be completed, by reason
of the great amount of work now on hand at Wool-
wich dockyard.
A special announcement was yesterday posted in
Woolwich d'eckyard, intimating the sanction of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the ob-
servance of the Queen's Coronation, to be held on
Monday, the 30th inst. This will close the entire
establishment from midday on Saturday till the
following Tuesday.
His Danish Majesty's screw corvette Heindal,
Capt. Gr. ve, arrived at Spithead, from St. Thomas,
yesterday morning. She left St. Thomas on the
Ist inst. Her Majesty's ship Immortalite sailed

from St. Thomas on the 30th of May, and the Royal
Mail steamer Shannon, arrived there on the 31st.
Darin the voyage home the Heindal spoke the fol-
lowing vessels :—On the 3d inst., in lat. 20, N, long.
64.34 W, the French brig Fernandez, and on the
14th inst., in lat. 41.40 N, lone. 43'10 W, the brig-
antine Helen. On the 22d inst. she passed the
wreck of the Joseph Howe, with bowsprit and fore
Lbo;zlrad
and main masts and boats gone, apparently aban-
\
4°tled by the crew. On the 25th inst., near the
to the , she spoke the William Turner, homeward
Inliniittlalre_forenoon Capt. Grove was presented
the port. The Reindal
Vanderbergh, his
Spithead for cope . 1
Y and naval authorities by Mr. A. L.
The Shannon gore .
Jones, left the steam
Rinish Majesty's Vice-Consul at
after coaling, will leave
nuagen on Sunday.
w frigate, Captain Oliver J.
basin of Port auth dockyard
yesterday, and proceeded cut or harbour under
steam to make the last of her present series of
screw trials at the measured mile in Stokes Bay.
Before clearing the harbour, however, it was evident,
from the altered motion of the propeller and the
sudden increase which took place at the sat" time
in the vessel's engines', that something 7,,,
Wrong
with the propeller. On gaining open water clear
of the harbour channel an examination as far
as
was pcsEible under the circumstances was made, the
result of which gave reason to behave that one of
the three blades of the propeller was gone, Under
such circumstances the ship returned to the harbour,
where she will be decked, and the damage, what-
ever it is', made good as scion as possible. The trial
will now probably not be made before
Tuesday next.
or

The filing at the armour plates on the sides of
the Sultan target ship commenced from the GB-
- of the stork in Porchester Creek, Ports-
mouth harbour, yesterday. The plates proved to be
of a very superior quality, as compared with the
general average of plates received for testing.
The Adventure, screw troopship, commander
Lethbridge, was taken out of Portsmouth harbour
yesterday to test machinery on completion of alte-