The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-05 00:00:00

NAVAL COAST VOLUNTEERS.

The following appointments to this newly constituted
movement to obtain volunteers for naval service were
published at this port yesterday :
Rear-Admiral Berkeley, C. 8., M.P.
Captain Smart, K.H. (superintendent).
Captain W. L. Sherringham,
Captain Henry Broadhead, to the four divisions in
Captain Peter Fisher, England.
Captain Vashon Baker,
Captain Jermingham, to Ireland.
Captain Craigie, to Scotland.
A paymaster, R.N., will be attached to each captain.
The enrolment of men commences forthwith.
The St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Captain the Hon. Henry
Keppel, went eat of the harbour yesterday after a refit.
A large party of officers and ladies were on board.
Among them were the Earl and Countess of Errol, Sir
T. Troubridge, Mr. BailielCochrane, Captain the Hon.
Joseph Denman, Captain the Hon. F. J. Pelham, Lady
Mary Pelham, the Hon. Mrs. Denman, Lord Clarence
Paget, &c. She cast • off from the hulk in harbour
at 11.45 a.m., with all her weights on board,' ex-
cept powder, shell, and a little bread, her draught being
23 feet 6 forward, and 25 feet aft. She ran through
Spithead (after saluting the Port Admiral), and down
to the westward to allow of her machinery being brought
up to its full power. In consequence of time pressing,
the ship was brought to the measured mile in Stokes'
Bay before the steam was properly up ; but this affected
the first run only (13'186 knots). Six consecutive runs
were made, the mean of which gave a rate of 11.199
knots per hour, and 61 revolutions of the screw per
minute. On the run a considerable bend was made in
consequence of a vessel getting on the course, which
materially- impaired the results If the first and fifth
runs be rejected for the above reasons, the result will be
accurately as follows :

Second iun 9'207
Third run ... 13.483 11.345 actual result.
Fourth run ... 9.160 11.321 11'333
These runs fairly represent the capabilities of the ship
and engines in smooth water. The revolutions of the
screw were 62 when not running head to wind. A
better day for the trial could not have occurred at this
time of the year ; and the whole of the six runs were
well sustained as to full speed from the time of attaining
it during the first run. Mr. John Dinnen, Inspector of
Machinery in the Surveyor of the Navy's Department
of the Admiralty, was on board to note the trials for
official report ; Mr. John Penn, the constructor of the
engines of the St. Jean d'Acre, was also on board, toge.
ther with the scientific officers of this dockyard, and
most of the naval officers studying steam at the Royal
Naval College. The pressure of steam was from 171 b.
to 201 b. Rear Admiral Berkeley's visit to the St. Jean
d'Acre last week was in connection with her armament.
It appears she mounts 20 68-pounders on her lower deck
and eight on the main deck, all the rest being long 32's,
except the odd gun on the forecastle, a 95 cwt. gun,
landed by the Duke of Wellington, and which throws a
solid 68-pounder shot. Since she has been here she has
been completely gutted ; her chain cable lockers have
been moved forward, a distilling galley fitted, and a false
keel added. She now stows four months' provisions
well, and 480 tons of coal. The galley runs off from
1,000 to 1,200 gallons of water daily. The ship came
to Spithead 111 short of her complement ; she has
" run" 16 while here, but is now only 30 short of 900,
and these 30 are waiting to join:her at Plymouth. She
sails on Tuesday for Lisbon.
When the artificers in the royal dockyards in future
receive injuries in the execution of their duty which are
of such a nature as to render it necessary to send them
to a naval hospital, they are to receive half their pay,
the same as though they were hurt and attended by the
surgeon of the dockyard at their own dwellings.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 3.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Vulture, Captain Glasse,
sailed yesterday afternoon for Jersey to assist a disabled
merchant-vessel. From that island she will proceed to
Greenock.
The Racehorse, 14, Commander E. Barnard, was
masted yesterday. She will bear a complement of 130
officers and men, and is destined for the East India sta-
tion.

The steam-tender Avon sailed on Friday with super-
andserei,men belonging to the St. Jean d'Acre.
The
HT.hileivli steam-ship St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Captain
MediterraneauZill call hero on her way to the
with a boat 42 feet
volunteers, and will be supplied
:t long, coppered. All the ships be-
steam-block a *
longing to the screw fleet are, it said, to be supplied
with similar boats.
flee • is •
•
Hogue, now in the Sound,
The screw
will shortly go -up Haraesze. hip
' On Friday evening
einto winter quarters.
'▪ r
net' bri
Channel, readied in towards the g•of-war, bound up
breeze from the northward, tacked Bolt, and, catching a
a pennant at 'her maintopgallantrellasZtain- She carried
her ensign to a large sailing vessel goinl, and dipped
This morning, at 4.30, two British stew down Channel.
essels-of-war
went down Channel inside the Eddystone,h f The head-
most, a paddle-wheel, carried a lig orward ; she
barque-rigged, all black. The other, a screw was
ports. They , Was low
in the water, and had painted were
under
S T-T.,_ N steam only. Wind, N.E., thick weather.
t.,,,‘ '''-:,...::'. PIN-Az The American liner Brandywine, from New York for
till"
.''„,ii›- --4---7.->s4:;.4avre, was spoken off Plymouth on Friday, having been
-.. ..ietii,„ten days in the Channel.,
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h DEC. 4.
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=:. /--;..,. ;qv-, e Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
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pany's steam-ship Douro, Commander Thomas S. Rus-
- ..;= sell, arrived here last evening, having in tow the disabled
c.... ~,. ).,--;-:French paddle-wheel steamer Paris. At 14.30 a.m., on
' - ' the Ist of December, 160 miles south-rest'. of Ushant,
she was discovered with flags half-Mast high, upon
which the Douro bore down towards her. A boat from
the Paris reported that her engines were broken down
and her boilers burst, and that
she was leaky, her pumps,

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