The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-27 00:00:00

711 E NAVY.

The Victoria and Albert, Royal paddle yacht,
Capt. G. H. Seymour, C. 8., sailed from Portsmouth
yesterday morning for Gravesend.
Instructions having been issued for the embarka-
tion of her Majesty on Monday next, the iron screw

yacht Fairy, Master-Commander David N. Welch,
tender to the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert,
yesterday arrived off Woolwich Dockyard, in pre-

paration for the conveyance of the Queen and the
Royal family accompanying her Majesty to the
Royal yachts, which are ordered up to Greenhithe
from Gravesend for that purpose this morning. The
Royal squadron will consist of the Victoria and
Albert, the Osborne, a couple of ships belonging to
the Trinity-house, and the Black Eagle and the

Vivid, at present at Woolwich. The Osborne,

Master-Commander Geo. H. K. Bower, is likewise

ordered to proceed from Gravesend to Greenhithe
this morning, in preparation to accompany the
Royal yacht and embark a portion of the Royal
family. In lying at her moorings yesterday morn-
ing at Gravesend, at an early hour, she was ran
into by a schooner, the John Fotherington, and her
galley, recently built for the service of the First
Lord of the Admiralty, was completely broken.
Other injuries were sustained by the Osborne,
which will be promptly repaired by shipwrights
from Woolwich., The schooner suffered some
damages of greater importance,—viz., the carrying
away of her topgallantmast, jibboom, and head
gear, B.:c.
Yesterday Capt. Rattendyke, the Dutch Minister
of Marine, paid a visit to Chatham Dockyard for
the purpose of inspecting the iron ships under con-
struction at that establishment. On arriving at the
dockyard he was conducted over the several depart-
ments by Capt. Fanshawe, the superintendent, and
Mr. Lang, principal master shipbuilder, the chief
points of attraction being the factory in which the
massive machinery is at work for preparing the iron
used in the construction of the Achilles, 50, in pro-
gress in No. 2 dock, in the inspection of which, as
well as the skeleton of the iron frigate, some time
was spent. Capt. Rattendyke then proceeded to
the extremity of the yard to inspect the armour-
clad frigate Royal Oak, 50, which is just ready for
launching.
The screw 60-horse power gunboat Fly, 2, tender
to the Pembroke, 60, 200-horse power, one of the
fleet of gunvessels built by contract during the Rus-
sian war, has been found so exceedingly rotten that
she is ordered to be broken up, and a party of ship-
wrights have commenced taking her to pieces in
No. 5 dock at Sheerness.
The paddlewheel steamer Terrible, 21, 1,850 tons,
800. horse power, attached to the second division of
the Chatham steam reserve, is undergoing a thorough

repair, both to her hull and machinery. The great
capacity of this frigate and the enormous power of
her engines render it highly probable that she will
again shortly be placed in commission. The Terrible
was put out of commission only a few months since,
after being employed for upwards of three years in
active service in the Mediterranean, where she was
Commanded by Capt. F. Glasse, C.B.
The screw gunvessel Jaseur, 5, recently launched
She is recegiveinng.
s.t, Deptford, is being fitted for the third division
of the steam reserve in the• Medway, at Chatham.
She board a pair of 80-horsel power.
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the Nore, where she was yesterday expected to ar-
rive, to turn over her commander, fn
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to the screw steamer Meeanee, 80, recently con-
verted from a sailing ship. The Edinburgh goes
into dock to undergo a thorough repair.
The screw steam sloop Eclipse, 4, 700 tons, hav-
e ing been fitted with engines of 200-horse power,
proceeded on Monday to the measured mile at the
Maplin Sands for the purpose of trying her machi-
nery, which was found to work exceedingly well-
She is to be placed in the first-class steam reserve
, at Chatham.
The following appointments were made on Mon-
day at the Admiralty :—John E. Petley, master, to
the Psyche, commissioned; T. J. Whillier, master,
to the Fisgard, for the Black Eagle ; Albert S.
Reeve, supernumerary in the Asia, confirmed as
second class assist. engineer ; James Williams and
J. T. Morgan, acting second class assist. engineers,