The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-24 00:00:00

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No. 17 939 j
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PUBLICATIONS.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, TIIURSDAY.—The Rolla, 10, Com-
mander Ellicombe, is ordered to suspend dismantling
for the present. She will be paid off and recommis-
sioned as an exercise and practical instruction vessel
for boys entered as apprentices in the nary—a most
laudable resolution, and one that will doubtlessly
yield a far larger amount of satisfactory result than
any other plan for the training of boys to seamen's
duties could have done. An experienced officer will
-have the command of this floating nursery.
The Ondine steam-vessel, Master-Commander
Allen, is ordered to be in readiness for the use of the
Lords of the Admiraltv, some of whom, including the
first sea Lord, Admiral Dundas, C. 8., M.P., are ex-
pected here to- morrow.
The Echo steam-tug has been dispatched to Fresh-
water, Isle of Wight, to embark some recovered
stores, late belonging to the Sphynx steam-sloop,
from the custody of the coast-guard.
The Avon steam-vessel, Commander Otter, which
has teen employed in the surveying service on the
coast of Scotland, arrived here this morning for the
wit ter.

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Naval and Military Gazette.

Commander J. D. Hay sailed on Monday, per
Indus, to take the command of the Columbine, 16,
on the East India and China station, vice Grey,
promoted.
Our letters from the China squadron are down to
the 30th of October. The Vernon, 50, Captain Fitz-
gerald, flag of Rear-Admiral Inglefield, 0.13., Com-
mander-in Chief, had sailed for Bombay to be docked,
and it was considered doubtful whether the Admiral
would return to the China Seas.
The Childers, 16, Commander J. C. Pitman, was
at the northward ; and the Scout, 16, Commander
Loring, had also sailed for the same quarter. The
officers and men of the latter ship expected to receive
at least 6,0001. forliead money, on account of destruc-
tion of pirates.
The Rattlesnake, 26, surveying vessel, Captain 0.
Stanley, was at Sydney on the 29th of July, and,
after remaining to rest, which would occupy about
six weeks, she would proceed to the northward to
survey the inner passage of Torres Straits, which
will be of great importance to steam communication
between Singapore and New South Wales.
The Nautilus transport sailed on Tuesday night
for Deptford.
The Sinbad lighter sailed yesterday with a portion
of the effects of the late Rear-Admiral Shirreff for
London.

Wind E.N.E., moderate breezes, and dark hazy
weather.

PORTSMOUTIL—In consequence of the favourable
report made by Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier of
the high state of discipline of the Caledonia and her
thorough efficiency as a man• of-war, the Admiralty,
directed the Commander-in-Chief at Devonport to
signify their Lordships' satisfaction at the same,
which was communicated to Captain Dixon, his offi-
cers, and ship's company, by Rear-Admiral Sir John
Louis, on the quarter-deck of that ship, upon the
inspection on Monday, the 20th instant.
WooLwicti, DEC. 23. The whole of the ship-
wrights recently employed upon the Royal Albert, 120,
have been placed upon the Nankin, 50, a fine frigate,
building at Woolwich dockyard from a design by
Mr. Lang, jun., assistant to the master shipwright
at Chatham dockyard, where the timber of the vessel
has been converted and sent round to Woolwich, that
she may be finished with the least possible delay.
The Stromboli, steam sloop, Commander Lord
Amelius Beauclerk, went down the river to-day to try
her engines, and will return to-morrow.

LIGHTS FOR STEAMERS.
ADMIRALTY, DEc. 15, 1847.
Extract from a letter addressed to the several Super,

intendents of her Majesty's Dock-yards.)
The attention of the Board of Admiralty having
been repeatedly called to the necessity of establishing
a uniform system of lights for steamers, directions
were given (after a long and careful series of trials
of various lights) to fit the several mail steamers on
the west coast of England, viz., those of Liverpool,
Holyhead, and Pembroke, with lights, as follows :
WHEN UNDER WEIGH.
A bright white light on the foremast head.

A green light on the starboard bow.
A red light on the port below, to be fitted with
inboard screens.

WHEN AT ANCHOR.

A common bright light.
On the above plan being notified it was adopted by
several steam-boat proprietors, and the vessels of the
steam companies named below are fitting, or are
already fitted, with these lights.
1. The British and North American Royal Mail
Company._

The British General Steam-packet Company.
The qlasgow and Liverpool Steam-packet Com-

The Chester and Holyhead Company.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Com-

6: The West India Royal Mail Steam-packet Corn.
pany.
The experiments thus made proving satisfactory,
the Board of Admiralty have given directions that all
steamers in her Majesty's navy shall be fitted with
the above-coloured lights and screens, the lanterns
being divided into two sizes or classes.
An Act having boen passed in the tenth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, entitled an Act, &c.,
requiring " that the Lords Commissioners of the Ad-
miralty shall institute and establish certain lights to
be exhibited by all steam-vessels belonging to Great
Britain:" it is the intention of the Board of Admi-
ralty to issue regulations for the above lights being
exhibited by all steamers navigating the coasts and
channels of this country :
but sufficient time will be
given for the owners and masters jof steam-vessels to
become acquainted with the plans, before the notice is
published in the London Gazette, requiring them to
show these lights; and this will probably be in the
month of March next. -In the meantime every faci-
lity will be afforded to masters and owners of
steamers, desirous of becoming acquainted with the
plan, by furnishing such as may apply for it with a
full description of the lights. And for the guidance
of persons interested in the above plan, a diagram il-
lustrative of the system is sent herewith.
If it should be desired, an officer will be sent to
give the requisite instructions as to the proper placing
of the lights and screens.

THE ABANDONED
The damaged barqne, Lady Kennaway, Captain
Avery, with a va 11
ui aEbNI eN It;
a‘rVgAn
abandoned in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on the
11th of November, a ovember, by ,Y from IiIP
Bombay,LA was
LADY
of thirty-five British
seamen, and picked up on the 19th by two vessels,
manned in all by twenty-four Danish seamen, who
possessed sufficient skill and courage, with subsequent
assistance,to work their own ships and bring the Lady
Kennaway, with her topgallant yards across, safely
intoi.ha
aißritish
w=t explanation, might appear highly
discreditable to the national character of British sea-
men, and the captain of the Lady Kennaway has
very properly published his statement of the circum-
stances under which it occurred. The publication of
ternht.s transpired, it
this statement has, in some measure, redeemed Cap•
taro Avery and his crew from the amount of blame
e whichi
d to h
Nevertheless,
appears that the crew of the Lady Kennaway were
not in that organized and disciplined condition which
a r e i
from all pllv theu o
informationsl)l
is desirable and necessary on board all British rrer-
attach
chant vessels. Captain Avery says
that he proposed
to lighten the 'tween decks, but his crew, one and all,
protc:sted against it, .A crew protesting against their
capt.ain's wishes is very much like refusing to do their
duty.
'The three principal reasons alleged for abandoning
th, ship were the less of the rudder, the leaky con-
dition of the vessel, and the state of the weather. Of
the, last, few persons but those on board could judge;
and it is a reason which might be brought to over-
rule all comment now. The loss of the rudder is
an undeniable fact ; but it is doubtful 'whether Cap-
tain Avery's carpenter and crew exerted themselves
as they should in this matter. With reference to the
alleged le iky condition of the vessel, a great mistake
was made somewhere. The ship was not leaky
when found by the Danes seven days after and she
has never been leaky, so to say, since. ~,n,
i e pumps
used to suck at 12 inches. On the 18th of December
they sucked at 16 inches, and from 8 in the morning
of the 18th to 4 in the afternoon of the next day
three were but 20 inches in all in the well of the ship
at her moorings in Plymouth. It is therefore evi-
dent that the crew must have misinformed Captain
Avery on this point.
The original rudder had an iron spindle, say 10
to 14 feet long, running from below the main deck
to above the poop deck. It was this part of the
rudder which first gave way. Captain Avery's peo-
ple went down into the after-hold in the lower deck,
and, the vessel being put head to wind, they opened
one of the after-ports, and made an attempt on that
level to ship a tiller into the rudder, but the rudder
was carried away altogether while they were there.
It was by the insufficient fastening of the port-hole
thus opened that the lives of the Danes were subse-
quently
endangered.
Tho temporary rudder constructed by Captain

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