The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-09 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1853.

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MECHANICAL PROPERTIES of a SET of STEAM; by Mr.Crispe,
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 8.
The Odin, 16, paddle-frigate, Captain Francis Scott,
went out of harbour to Spithead this morning to join the
squadron there. She saluted the acting Commander-in-
Chief, Rear-Admiral Fa.nsha we, C. 8., from her heavy
main-deck guns on rounding the spit. This is one of
the best paddle steam-frigates in the navy, and is most
ably officered and manned. The Odin's armament con-
sists of 2 68-pounders, 95 cwt. each and 10 feet long, on
pivots, and 4 10-inch guns, 85 cwt. and 9 feet 6 inches
long, broadside guns on the upper deck; 4 32-pounders,
56 cwt. and 9 feet 6 inches long, each on the main deck
forward, and 6 ditto on the main deck aft. She carries
also 2 24-pounder howitzers, 13 cwt. each ; 1 12-pounder
6 cwt., and 1 6-pounder field-piece as boat-guns. She
carries 370 tons of coals in bunkers, and 84 days' pro-
visions under hatches for 270 men. She went out in
the following trim :—Draught of water forward, 15 feet
10 ; aft, 16 feet 3. Height of main deck port-sills from
the water :—bow, 6 feet 2 ; fore midship, 5 feet 41 ;
after-midship, 5 feet 01 ; after-ports, 5 feet 74. She is
the only ship-rigged paddle-steamer at Spithead, and
looks remarkably well. Her destination is not yet fixed.
The Fairy Royal yacht, Master CoMmander Welch,
shipped a new iron screw of Griffith's patent on the
graving slip yesterday, which she went out to-day to try
under the direction of Captain Crispin, the second in com
mand of the Royal squadron. The screw propellers in
general use are formed of two blades continued down to the
shaft, the boss, or centre, being reduced to the smallest
possible size consistent with strength. The Government
by their elaborate experiments with the Rattler, Minx,
&c., appear to have determined thus far the general out-
line principles for constructing the screw, bAt,lie correct
pitch, diameter, and length, 3440 aitlEe.mull)er of
blades necessary for obtaining the best restilec'Efe till
matters upon which scarcely two engineers agree, and
the screws have frequently to be altered in vessels before

the best form is arrived at, as, for instance, the experiments
with the Queen of the South. The new propeller which
Messrs. Swayne and Bovill have made for her Majesty's
yacht Fairy, upon Griffiths's patent, is opposed to all
the hitherto received notions of a correct screw. The
first leading feature is, that instead of continuing the
blades down to the shaft, and keeping the centre boss
as small as possible, one-third of the entire diameter is
fitted up as a sphere. The experiments that have been
made have demonstrated that the centre part of the or-
dinary screws absorbs 20 per cent. of the power, without
having any propelling effect in consequence of that part
of the blades, particularly in coarse-pitched screws,
being nearly in a line with the shaft, the effect being,
when working, to hurl the water off by its flapping and
centrifugal action at right angles to the shaft, and seri-
ously disturbing the more solid water upon which the
effective part of the screw should act. The great vi-
bration at the stern of all screw vessels arises from
this flapping action of the flatter portion of the blades,
in their downward course, striking the denser water
below them, which, offering a greater resistance than
the water above the blade in its upward course, produces
this vibration. The central ball of the new propeller is
made to cover this destructive portion of the screw-
blades, or is rather substituted for the central third por-
tion of the screw. It will be seen that the power re-
quired to revolve this sphere in the water at a great
velocity is insignificant compared with driving the com-
paratively flat blades of the same diameter, which may
be fairly comilared to the centre of a centrifugal pump.
Moreover, fr Mu the water not being violently agitated
by the centrifugal action, the effective part of the pro-
peller-blades is screwing in stiller and more solid water,
producing a better result. The strength of the screw is
much increased by this form, which also affords great
facility for replacing the blades in case of accident, to
which screw-vessels are particularly liable. The second
important feature in this new propeller is the form of the
blades which, instead of being larger at the extremities,
are precisely the reverse. In that made for the Fairy
the surface of the blades is the full diameter of the
sphere, two feet at the root, and tapering to two-thirds
of this size at the periphery, at which part the blades
are only about one-third the size of her ordinary screw.
The diameter is also much reduced below the Fairy's
present screw, from the increased hold the blades of the
new propeller have on the water. The Fairy went out
of harbour this morning at 20 minutes past 11, with
Capt. Henderson, C. 8., Capt. Harris, Capt. Egerton,
Capt. Goldsmith, &c. Mr. Baker, inspector of steam
machinery afloat, and chief engineer of the royal yachts,
Mr. Balliston, Master-Commanding the Elfin, &c., were
also on board. She made 13 runs along the measured
mile at Stokes Bay, with various pitches of the screw, a
strong southerly breeze blowing, the results of which were
highly satisfactory, all vibration being removed, and an
increase of half a knot an hour obtained as compared
with the trials of her ordinary screw on Saturday, the
mean speed to-day being 12.557, with a seven-feet pitch ;
the speed on Saturday being 12.100. The diameter
of Griffith's screw tried to-day was only 5 feet 10, with
which the foregoing results were obtained. The Fairy
goes on to the graving slip to-night, to have the other
set of blades, of 6 feet 4 diameter, fitted, which will
bring the diameter to within two inches of the Fairy's
own screw, and she will go out to-morrow to complete
the experiments.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. B. Martin,
C. 8., has got all her lower rigging over and turned in ;
she pointed her mizen topmast this afternoon, and has
got her main and fore ready for pointing. A mould of
the figure-head was placed to-day on this noble ship.
Simple enough as was the figure, the likeness, as a pro-
file, could not be mistaken.

The Prince Regent, 90, flag of Rear-Admiral Corry,
Captain Fred. Huttin, hauled into the angle dock this
morning, to have her copper cleaned and rudder re-
paired.
The Cruiser, 14, screw-sloop, Commander the Hon. G.
H. Douglas, arrived at Spithead this afternoon from
Woolwich, and saluted the acting Commander-in-Chief.
The Rodney, 92, Capt. Charles Graham, C.B. will be
"paid down" to-morrow, and sail on Saturday, accord-
ing to present orders, for the Mediterranean, accom-
panied by the Fury,
6) Paddle-6301; Commander Tat-
ham.

The Leander, 50, Capt. King, and the Arrogant, 46,
screw-frigate, Capt. Freemantle, are ordered to sea on a
cruise, and sail this week. They will be paid on Thurs-
day.

The Medea, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander J. C. Bailey,
sails shortly for the West Indies, it is reported.
The Sibelli, convict-ship, arrived at Spithead this
morning from the River, and will embark convicts from
this port, for use at Gibraltar.
The fine American packet the Devonshire, arrived at
Spithead this day from the Thames, bound to New York.
The screw-steamer Bengal, with Peninsular and Ori-
ental flag at the fore, passed round the fleet at Spithead
this day at 2 p.m., on another trial cruise.

WOOLWICH, FEB. 8.
APPOINTMENTS.

Espiegle, 12, at Sheerness.
Surgeon—William J. Gruggens4.D. (1850), to the
Assistant Surgeons—S. Bowden and G. F. Banks, to
the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw-ship, Portsmouth.
Clerks—Wm. H. H. Standbridge (1851), recently
serving in the Plumper screw steam-sloop on the south-
east coast of America station, to the Magicienne, 16,
paddle-wheel . steam-frigate, at Devonport ; John J.
Weeks to the Victory flag-ship at Portsmouth.
The Fearless surveying vessel, Capt. Frederick ,
which will occupy about
Bul-
lock, arrived at Woolwich on Saturday from Sheerness,
The Megiera steam-frigate, Commander John 0.
taofohratvneigshotm. e defects made good
Johnson, left Woolwich yesterday for Portsmouth.
The Firebrand steam-frigate, Captain Hyde Parker,
had her steam up to-clay in the basin, to try her engines,
which were made by Seaward and Capel in 1843, and
fitted on board in the same year. The frigate will be
out of the hands of the engineers on Saturday.
The Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate, has had her
four boilers put on board, and a great part of her engines,
by Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field.
The Royal Albert, 120, is now progressing fast to-
wards completion for launching, and it is considered
certain that she will be ready in the month of August of
the present year. The length added to her stern for
fitting her as a screw-propelled war steamer gives her a
more majestic appearance, and she 'is expected to be
mounted with 131 guns of large calibre.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHNSON, F.R.S.—
We regret to announce the death. of Captain Edward
Johnson (1838), F.R.S., the superintendent of the com-
pass department of the Admiralty. The following is an
epitome of the services of the gallant deceased from
" O'Byrne's Biography" :—" Edward John Johnson is
youngest son of the late Rev. Henry Johnson, of Bywell
' Northumberland. He entered the navy, may 1, 1807,
as first-class volunteer, on board the Nassau, 64, Capt.
Robert Campbell. In that ship he attended the ensuing
expedition to Copenhagen, and (on her subsequent extri-
cation from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked
up during the whole winter) was present, March 22, 1808,
in company with the Stately, 64, at the capture and
destruction, on the coast of Zealand, of the Danish, 74,
Prindts Christian Frederic, after a running fight of
great length and obstinacy, in which the Nassau sus-
tained a loss of 2 men killed and 16 (including himself,
slightly) wounded. The latter vessel being paid nff in Nov.,
1809, he was next, until June, 1815, employed as a mid-
SDragon, 74, Cap-
tain John Borlase
Warren mid-
shipman and acting lieutenant, in the Solebay, 32, Cap-
tain Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, Malacca, 36, Cap-
tain Wm. Butterfield, Ethalion, 36, Captain Edm. Hey-
wood, Endymion, 44, Captain Henry Hope, St. Domin-
go,
arAlesin and
a,andsTiroAnnleaxn-t'
Robert Barrie, on the Home, Baltic, and North
American stations. While in the Ethalion, Mr. John-
son served in various cutting-out affairs,
and on more
than one occasion was sent into port as prize-master ;
and, when in the Tonnant, we find him co-operating on
shore in the attacks upon Washington and Baltimore,
and employed in the boats during the Expedition against
New Orleans. Being presented, on leaving the Dragon
as above, with a commission dated Feb. 28, 1815, he
obtained May 16, 1818, an appointment to the Sham-
rock, surveying-vessel, Captain Martin White, with
whom he did duty in the Channel arid off the coast of
Ireland until Feb., 1820. On March 4, 1829, shortly
aaer he had joined the William and Mary, yacht, Com-
modore Sir John Chambers White, he was promoted to

the command of the Britomart, 10, in which vessel he
remained, chiefly on the Lisbon station, until paid off in
1831. He was then ordered by the Admiralty to com-
plete the survey of the Faeroe Islands-a service he had
commenced at his own expense when last on half-pay.
His advancement to the rank he now holds took place
Dec. 27, 1838. Captain Johnson, in Oct., 1835, was
appointed by the Admiralty to conduct certain
magnetic experiments on iron steam-vessels in
the river Shannon ; and on May 10, 1836, he was
elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He was
nominated a member of the Magnetic Compass Com-
mittee of the Admiralty in 1838 ; and invested, March
14, 1842, with the superintendence of the compass de-
partment of the Royal Navy." The names of several
captains, commanders, and masters have been floating
about as probable successors to Captain Johnson, and
we have heard also that of Sir W. Snow Harris, the
celebrated projector of the lightning conductors now in
general use in the navy, and the inventor of the compass
in the service, royal or mercantile.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE ORESTES.-OMMalley, Son,
and Co., have given notice to the officers and crew, late
of the Orestes, entitled to share for the Portuguese brig
Eolo, captured on the 22d March, 1851, that an account
of the net proceeds and tonnage bounty granted for the
said capture, will be delivered into the registry of the
High Court of Admiralty forthwith.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE FLYING FISH.-Messrs. Chard
have given notice to Captain Patey and the officers and
ship's company, late of the Flying Fish, that the net
proceeds and bounty money on the tonnage of the Bra-
zilian slave vessel Mosquito, captured on the Ist Novem-
ber, 1850, and of the bounty money on the tonnage and
on slaves captured in a slave vessel, name anknown, on
26th of December, 1850, will be paid to those who were
on board at the same time of capture, or to their repre-
tentlitiVes duly authorised to receive the same, on the
23d instant, at No. 3, Clifford's-inn, and the shares not
then claimed will be re-called every Wednesday and
Thursday for three months to come. Proportions due to
each class :-Mosquito-Commodore, 101. 12s. 3d. ; com-
mander, 191. 17s. lid.; third class, 51. 6s. 3d. ; fourth,
31. 3s. 9d. ; fifth, 11. 17s. 2d. ; sixth, 11. Ils. 10d. ;
seventh, 1/.‘ls. 3d ; eighth, 10s. 7d. ; ninth, 6s. 7d. ;
tenth, 4s. Name unknown-Commodore, 761. 19s. 11d. ;
commander, 1441. 7s. 4d. ; third class, 381. 12s. lid. ;
fourth, 231. 3s. 9d. ; fifth, 131. 10s. 6d. ; sixth, 11/. 11s.
10d ; seventh, 71. 14s. \7d. ; eighth, 3/. 17s. 3d ; ninth,
21. Bs. 3d. ; tenth, 1/. Os.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE SPIDER.-Goode and Co. have
given notice to the late officers and crew of her Majesty's
ship Spider, J. W. Tomlinson, Esq., lieutenant com-
manding, that, on the 23d February, they will be paid,
as above, their proportions of bounty money, &c., re-
ceived for the America, captured on the 20th September,
1850 ; and the shares will be re-called every Wednes-
day and Thursday for three months to come :-Flag,
311. 15s. 11d.; captain, 591. 12s. 4d. ; fourth class, 381.
13s. 5d.; fifth, 221. 11s. 2d.; sixth, 191. 6s. Bd. ; seventh,
171. 17s. 9d. ; eighth, 61. Bs. 10d. ; ninth, 41. Os. 6d. ;
tenth, 21. Bs. 4d.

TIIB ISTHMUS OE DARIEN.