The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-07 00:00:00

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711 E NAVY.

The screw corvette Pylades, 21, 350 horse power,
fitting at Chatham, is out of the hands of the rig-
gers, and will be completed, and ready to be un-
docked in about a fortnight, when another fine cor-
vette will be at the disposal of the Admiralty for
immediate commission.
The Himalaya screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacy,
was undocked at Portsmouth yesterday, tempora-
rily, and berthed alongside the dockyard.
The Resistance, 16, iron ram, Capt. Chamberlain,
was docked yesterday at Portsmouth in the large
dock, to carry out repairs to her Kingston valves.
The Hero, 89, screw line-of-battle ship, Capt. A.
P. ,yder, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning
from Halifax, bringing home 30 invalids and other
passengers. She left. Halifax on the 21st October.
The ship is ordered to Sheerness to dismantle and
pay off.
The Flying Fish, 6; screw, commander W. IT.
Anderson, arrived at Spithead Yesterday fiSkriloon
from Ascension, having left that island on S;-pt. S.
She arrived at the French settlement of Goree on
Sept. 21, left again on' the 24th, experienced a gale
on her passage thence to Lisbon, where she arrived
on Oct. 16, left the Tagus on Oct. 24, on Oct. 29
called at Vigo, and sighted Ushant on Nev. 4. At
8 30 p.m., on coming up the West Channel by the
Needles passage, the ship went ashore about a
cable's length off Newtown harbour, Isle of Wight.
She came off again at 11 30 p.m., at high water,
without sustaining any serious damage, and brought
up abreast of Hampstead for the night, the weather
being at the time very thick and foggy.
The gunboat Trinculo, 4, Lieut. Creagh, tender
to the flagship. Revenge, left Plymouth on Wednes-
day for Gibraltar.
The screw steamsloop Rosario, ii, Commander
S. Graham, from Sheerness for Jamaica, arrived at
Plymouth on Wednesday night. She embarked
supernumeraries for ships on the West India station.
A succession of trials and experiments of interest
and importance to the naval service took place yes-
terday in Woolwich dockyard, by order of the Board
of Admiralty, occupying upwards of four hours and
a half, to test the relative merits of three rival port-
able ships' engine pumps. The Commodore Super-
intendent, Sir F. Nioolson, Mr. Turner, and Mr.
Thornton, master and assist.-master shipwrights,
and other officers of the yard, were in attendance.
The first engine tried was that of Mr. Roberts, of
Millwall, and manufactured by Messrs. Brown,
Lennox, and Co. This was a double-action pillar
pump, and was worked by four men, and afterwards
by double that number, casting various jets of
water, by a change of hose-pipes, directed horizon-
tally and vertically. It filled a tank containing 108
gallons of water in two minutes and 31 seconds,
from one of the fitting basins adjoining the place of
trial. The result was very satisfactory. The next
trial was with Mr. Stone's, of Deptford, also a port-
able engine of similar dimensions, but pronounced
superior in power and capacity in each of the tests,
as to distance, height, and the time consumed in
filling the tank. The third engine was that of Mr.
Gossage, of the Admiralty, and manufactured by
Mr. Stone, which anderwent the same series of trials
as the two named above, and with a slight advan-
tage over that of Mr. Roberts. At the termination
of the trials an opinion was pronounced by the in-
specting officers in favour of the engine supplied by
Mr. Stone. They reserve to themselves the right of
examining and measuring the diameter of each of
the cylinders, which will be done this morning.
Mr. Gossage's pump has been used in her Majesty's
service for about 14 years. Mr. Stone's is also an
old service pump ; and that of Mr. Roberts is sup-
plied to several of our ships of war.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—George Gilpin, master, to
Phaeton ; Dr. T. A. Roe, assist.-surg., additional,
to the Sutlej ; Dr. J. Simpson, acting assist.-surg.,
to the Trafalgar; Henry Gray (a), paymaster, to
the Leopard; Henry A. C. Meeson, master's assist-
ant, to the Euryalus; W. J. Bullmore, master's
assistant, to the Resistance ; E. B. Nettleton, clerk,
to the Formidable; Sydney H. Scroggs, assistant
clerk, to the Excellent ; and Gabriel Beer, assistant
clerk, to the Leopard.