The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2, 1846.—The following is the
Admiralty official list of her Majesty's fleet up to the
end of 1845 :—Tbose fitting, and, consequently, but re-
cently commissioned, are so marked ; the others are
effective men-of-war, and may be met with in nearly all
parts of the world, except the Baltic and the Black Sea,
where they are not rt quired. As troop ships, surveying
and discovery ships, steamers, transports, packets and
revenue vessels, and yachts, are not considered men-of-
war, being only partially armed and manned, they have
been omitted in this statement. The force on the coast
of Africa alone consists of 25 vessels.

SHIPS OF THE LINE.
Guns!
1
St. Vincent l2O Albion ...
Trafalgar l2b Canopus
Queen
Caledonia l2O Collingwood
Hibernia lO4 Vanguard .
Rodney
The Victory, Ocean, Poictiers, and Imaum, are
considered effective sea-going men-of-war.

FIRST-CLASS FRIGATES.
Eagle 5O Winchester...—.
America 5O Vernon
Warspite
Vindictive 5O Grampus (fitting)........
Endyroion ...... .. 44 . _

SECOND-CLASS F
42
42
42

Fox..
Fisgard
Melampus ..........
THIRD-CLA.
Eurydice
Amazon .. 26
Conway 26
Tyne
Alarm
Juno .. . 26
Vestal
Carysfort (fitting)
North Star 26
Talbot

:IGATES (at sea).
Inconstant
Castor ~,
Pique .
s FRIGATES.
Crocodile
Calliopo
Cleopatra
Iris
Actaeon
Curacoa
'Daedalus
*Calypso (fitting) ..
•Daphne

These ships have a small,
midable, armament.
FIRST-CLASS STJ

but most powerful and

'EA3I FRIGATES.
Retribution, ready.
Terrible...
Sampson }fitting.
Gladiator
steamers are to form part of an experi-
Iron, ar.d to put to sea in the spring.
JECOYD-CLASS STEAMERS AT SEA.
Vulture Thunderbolt Salamander Hecla
Virago Styx Prometheus Driver
Vixen Stromboli Hydra Cormorant
Vesuvius Spiteful Hecate Alecto.
The Rattler, Phcenix, and Scourge fitting ; and with
the following—Medea, Devastation, Geyser, and Ardent,
are to form part of the experimental squadron of steam-
ers in the spring.

Penelope
Cyclops
Firebrand
Gorgon

at sea.

These fou
mental squad

CORVETTIS AND BRIGS.
Hyacinth ...
Modeste ... 18 Frolic
Orestes
Rose lB Bittern .......
Sattelite
Acorn
Wolf lB Grecian
Comus lB Lily
Lame
Persian l6 Racer ...... Si
Racehorse ... l6lSappho
Ringdove (fitting)
Serpent l6 Wolverine
Wasp
Osprey l2 Flying Fish
Mutine l2 Espiegle
Kingfisher
Daring l2 Pantaloon
Nautilus ... ........... ...... 10 Heroine
Rapid (fitting)
Rolla
Sealark lO Star
Water Witch .. . lO Cygnet
••
Nimrod (fitting) 2Ol
In addition to the foregoing there are 22 armed
steamers, brigs, and cutters, commanded by lieutenants.
The whole force amounts to a formidable fleet of—.
12 Sail of the line.
34 Frigates.
8 Firit-class steamers.
19 Second-class steamers.
47 Corvettes and brigs.
22 Small craft.

... 16
• 16
... 16
16
• 16
... 16
... 16
... 16
.. 16

... 16

Total... 142 Effective men-of-war.
Her Majesty's ship Rodney sailed into harbour on
Wednesday, and will go into dock this day week, when
the tides will suit. Owing to there being at present but'
one working dock, vessels only partially completed are
removed to make room for those urgently required ;
thus the Rattler was taken out to let in the Daring. She
was in for twenty-four hours yesterday, and the pre-
vious afternoon, and now the Fairy yacht is in her
place, to have a new screw of Mr. Smith's fitted. When
that service is finished, the Scourge is to be in-
spected, and then Rodney. She is only expected to be
shored up for twenty-four hours, and is to give place to
Rattler, that she may be finished out of hand. The two
unhoused docks are occupied by the Leander (building),
and Amphitrite (re-constructing), and as they will not
be ready to be floated out for some months, the services
of these docks are lost for their original purposes. The
Prince Regent, cutting down to a 90-gun two-decked
ship, has been in dock upwards of four years ; if she
were coppered, and made secure below, the shipwright
department might complete the upper works in the basin,
and a large dock be made available for small vessels with
their masts in. Her Majesty's steamer Retribution
arrived from the Nore yesterday. The detachment of
Marine Artillery under command of Second Lieutenant
Hall will be embarked to-morrow or Tuesday. She was
caught in a heavy gale of wind on Wednesday night off
the Owers, and had some of her skylights, head-rails,
&c., washed away, and she is to go into the harbour to
be put to rights.
The Daring brig has completed ber refit, been in dock
to hare her copper cleaned, and goes to Spithead to-
morrow. Her orders for the coast of Africa are coun-
termanded, and she is to sail on Sunday for Bermuda
and the West Indies. The Bittern's orders for the coast
of Africa still remain in force, and now the wind has got
round to the north, she may be hourly expected to em-
bark the 8,000/. in specie sent from the Treasury for
Sierra Leone, and the Government dispatches for Com-
modore Jones at Ascension.

The .Alban steamer has some defects in the cylinders
of her engines, and will be put in dick this afternoon to
have them rectified; this will detain her in the harbour
until the 15th inst., when it is intended she shall return
to Cork.
for Woolwich in charge of Mr. Brown, the seconthem d
°ch.
attendant, and some seamen and riggers from
The Centaur, Ist class steamer, jury-rigged, hdas sailed
Ypuardt•
oa
be eOrarnis3ioHed. The Nautilus brig:accompames her
Shehoar
board
will have
the r
ihreerr, ,
and engines,
afterwards
return machinery, and feurnen
to e I
as far as Shoreham.
The Emerald tender sailed this afternoon to Devon-
port, with officers and men fur the Queen, Nimrod, and
Rapid.
The Earl of liaddingtoH, on retiring from the Admi-
ralty,lffAie..nGwte.nitatnntt,hlviur;:
Williams,
zt,—
has promotedDt.h.vireFf.ouplrinoleewtcaiuhnreg,r,ml,
avant.desFth.teo the rank of
Ar H
..eurs. W. K. Jaffe H. B. Hardman,
Lord Ellenborough's private secretary hasWH .o
Honourable
t
been appointed. Captain the Honourable R. S. Dundasl
will remain for a short period. In naval circles, it is
stated that Admiral Sir George Cockburn will retire
from the Admiralty in a few months, and be succeeded
by Admiral Sir Byam Martin,
CHATHAM, JAN. 2.—The Columbine, 18 guns, is
ordered to be prepared forthwith and fitted for service.
The:Scout, 16 guns, was put out of dock on Wednesday
last, and was taken alongside the sheer hulk, when her
masts were placed on board ; she will be ready for com-
missioning by the middle of this month, when it is ex-
pected the pendant will be hoisted.
The Eurotas, 42 guns, was taken into deck on the 31st
ult., to be fitted for a steam guard-ship for this port ;
most of the hired workmen employed in the Fortitude
coal depcit, now nearly completed, have been transferred
to her.

The Calypso, 20 guns, Captain Henry J. Worth,
fitting for sea, is getting fast with her rigging, and will
be ready for sea in about three weeks ; she has a few
hands on board, but seamen come forward very slowly
for her.

Th© La Hogue, 74 guns, fitting at Blackwall as a steam
guard-ship for this port, and the Eurotes, fitting for the

same service, are each to be fitted with galvanized rigging.
The Janus steam-sloop has been under the hands of
the: dockyard ever since her arrival from her last trip.
She is ordered to Portsmouth, and left Chatham this
day. The Earl of Dundonald, her constructor, arrived
on Thursday afternoon, the Ist iret., from London, and
is now staying at the residence of the Captain-Sup.T-
intendent, W. 11. Shirriff, R.N. The Noble Earl intends
proceeding with the ship. Her last trip evidently
proves that she will never, under her present construction,
be able to head the sea. The following is the progress
she made in her last trial, on her leaving this port on
the 16th ult. : She started at 1 P.M., with a fine breeze
aft, her wheels revolving about 3i turns per minute ;
and on her arrival at Sheerness at a quarter-past three
o'clock,:p.m., anchored off the Moue at four o'clock; P. 11.,
and on the 17th she proceeded at thirty minutes after
eight o'clock a.m. for Portsmouth, with fine smooth
water, with light breezes blowirg aft, she making 13
turns of the wheels per minute, and at two P.M. bar speed
became reduced, and kept gradually slackening, in con-
sequence of a slight swell of the sea, and at nine P.M.
she could only make nine turns per minute. On the 18th,
at three o'clock A.M. she made nino turns per minute,
and at five A.M. only seven turns per minute, and in con-
sequence of a head wind springing up, it was feared that
she could not make head way a;ainst the wind, and
she was compelled to return, and she set sail at one
P.M., and anchored in the Downs for the night, and
on the 10th, at thirty minutes after eight A.M.,
started her engines, with a light favourable breeze,
her wheels revolving about thirteen turns per minute,
and at nine o'clock the ship was put round to the
wind, for the purpose of trying her, hut she could not be
forced to go ahead, and she laid for the night. On the
21st, at thirty minutes after ten o'clock, the ship
started for Chatham, but, owing to a strong wind, she
could not go ahead, and it was found necessary to
anchor two miles from Margate, keeping the engines
at work until night ; and at thirty minutes after eight.
A.?!., on the 22d, started again for Sheerness, attempted
to beat up; not being able to steam against the wind, at
thirty minutes after eleven, A.M., got aground, and after
some difficulty got off, and anchored for the night. On
the 23d it was found that she could not go ahead, and
she was forced to remain at anchor. On the 24th the
weather was fine, and took three hours to get her anchor;
one of the hawse-holes was carried away, and the vessel
arrived off Chatham-yard at fifteen minutes past four
o'clock, P.M. She is now to be removed to Portsmouth,
to see what can be done there with her.
A new school is to be erected in the dockyard for the
apprentices.