The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-18 00:00:00

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it The screw steamship Howe, 121, hav:;--aps-
coppered, was removed from No. 1 dock in Ea,
steam-yard on Thursday.
The screw steam corvette Jason, 21, is placed
No. 1 dock at Key ham to have her bends coppered.
Her topmasts are fiddecl.
The repairs of the screw steam coast guardship
' ' Hogue, 60, at Devouport, will be completed in the
shipwright department about the 30th inst.
The crewpf the screw steam frigate Emerald, 51,
Capt. A. Cumming, at Plymouth, were paid wages
' and granted leave of absence on Thursday.
When the crew were in the act of tatting the
anchor on board the Russian frigate General Ad-.
, miral, Capt. Shestaskoff, on Tuesday last, as she'
passed out through the western entrance to Ply-
mouth Sound, at a speed of eight knots, one of the.
men engaged in the bows fell overboard, wheni
Lieut. Falbe, a Dane by birth, threw off his coat
and, jumping in, swam after
the
and sustained '
drowning sailor until relief arrived.
The gunboat Hind, tender to the sere- cv steam
coastguard-ship Russell. 60, Capt. Wemdhouse, at
Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth r„ -wednesday,
night and went up Hamoaze.
Steam was got up on Thwesday on board the
gunboat Violet, at DevonP'ort, and she went out-
: side the breakwater to prove her machinery.
The War Department screw steamer Balaklavce,
from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth on Wednes-
day with stores for the gunwharf at Devonport ,
The Pembroke, 60, guns, Capt. Charlewoo7a,has
returned from a Channel cruise, and agai'a taken
, up her moorings as a guardship off Harwich
harbour.
launched
The screw steamship Gibralt-ar, 101 guns,
on Thursday at Devon,;,ort, is of the fol-
lowing dimensions :—Length loetween the pespen_
diculars, 252 feet ; breadth, extreme, iBfeet
1 inch; moulded, 56 feet 5 inches; depth in hold,
25 feet 7 inches ; burden, in tons, "(1,715 62.94 ;
horse power, 850; number of
guns, 101.
The screw steam coast guards'aip Hawke, 60,
Capt. W. Crispin, got up steam In Plymouth Sound
on Wednesday, and left for her station on the coast
of Ireland,
The lEtna, 16, stF,am floating battery, in dock at
Chatham, has ha':a the decayed iron sheathing re-
moved from thy, bottom of her hull, which is being
coated with. 'a preparation used in the navy for the
prevention of ravages by marine insects.
The Vik, 12, Commander H. Campion, is ordered.
to be PE!.id off at Chatham on Tuesday next. She
is nos being dismantled and her stores are in course
of being removed into the dockyard.
'The Bombay, 84, and the Arethusa, 51, which
are being converted into screw steamers at Chatham,
have each a large number of shipwrights employed
on them in order that they may be completed with
all despatch.
The following vessels at ChPatham are now being
fitted for the steam reserve at that port—viz., the
Orpheus, 21, 400 horse-power; the Cormorant, 4,
200 horse-power ; the Puacehorse, 4, 200 horse-power;
and the Linnet, Sor_ew gunboat, 60 horse-power.
The Colos,sus,, 80, screw, Capt. F. Scott, C. 8.,
arrived at Sp'ithead yesterday morning from Port-
land and Y 9
armouth-roads. She brought up in the
last-name'a anchorage the preceding night.
The frAlowing second masters were yesterday
promoted to the rank of master :—Chas. M. Hughes,
Fralicis Hixon (acting), Frederick Howard (acting),
George F. Day, Edward P. Bedwell, Edward
Spence, Robert Gilpin, Richard T. M‘Pearce,
Robert Brown, D. Farrant, John A. B. Patch, and
George Patterson.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Francis B. Henwood, master,
to the Asia, for the Shannon ; William P. Rains,
master, to the Amphion ; Dover Farrant, master,
to the Lapwing ; Dr. George Mason, surgeon, to
the Tartar ; Robert Creighton, surgeon, to the
Curlew ; and Thomas P. Potts, third-class assist.-
engineer, to the Hornet.

TEE WOUNDED VOLUNTEE.RB OF
GARIBALDL

We have been favoured with a letter on the state
of the wounded volunteers in the hospital of Bar-
cellona, which Madame Mario has addressed to a
friend in this country who is interested in the
" Ladies' Garibaldi Benevolent Association" :

" Barcelona, Aug. 11, 3 a.m.
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