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

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 fhP
steam nained below fue ntting, or are
already fitted, with these lights.
1. The British and North American Royal Mail
Company.
2. The British General Steam-packet Company.
3. The Glasgow and Liverpool Steam-packet Com-
pany._

4-. The Chester and Holyhead Company.
5. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Com-
pany._ -

6: The West India Royal Mail Steam-packet Com-
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 leaving been passed in the tenth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, entitled an Act, &c., " 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 fol. 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 *of 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
robabl be in the
month of March next. In the meantimeevery 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 11-
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
KENNAWAY
The damaged barque, Lad TT
~.ennaway, Captain
Avery, with a valuable cargo,Bombay, was
SHIP LADY
from
abandoned in a storm in the 13'sthe.
11th of November, by a crewßritishon
seamen, and picked up on the 19
twohthirty
vessels,
manned in all by twenty-four Danish t by
ofy of Biscay,_five
seamen, who
possessed sufficient skill and courage with subsequent
assistance, to work their own ships wi
• the Lady
into and bring_
Kennaway, with her topgallant yards across, safely
into a British port.
This fact, without explanation, might
appear highly
discreditable to the national char •
Lady Kof British
i,;
sea-
men, and the captain of the
very properly published his statementa of entnhae circum-
stances uma..
stances under which it occurred. The publicationc of i
this statement has, in some measure, redeemed Cap-
tain C
tain Avery and his crew from the amount of blame
which previously attached to them. Nevertheless,
from all the information which has transpired, it
appears that the crew of the Lady liennaway were
not in that organized and disciplined condition which
is desirable and necessary on board all British mer-
chant vessels. Captain Avery says that he proposed
to lighten the 'tween decks, but his crew, one and all,
protested against it, A crew protesting against their
captain's wishes is very much like refusing to do their
duty.
The three principal reasons alleged for
abandoning
the ship were the loss of the rudder, the leaky con-
dition of the vessel, and the state of the weather. Of
coil.
the last, few persons but those on board Li
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 ikv 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. •
L'he 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 '2O 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, 1
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.
The temporary rudder constructed by Captain