The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-05 00:00:00

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TEE NAVP. NE vv-spAp

The Cormorant, 4, and the
screw despatch gun vessels. buiF
by contract, are being fitted at
machinery, which is of 2,90-hor:
The new screw corvette Orph
power (nominal), has been t&zen
hulk at Chatham for the purl post.
the steam reserve at that port.
The Thunder, 14, steam Hooting battery, 150-
horse power, is ordered to be trkon into the second
dock at Chatham to-day, for the• purpose of being
inspected and undergoing the necmary repairs.
The screw gun-vessel Torch, 5, Co m mander
Smith, fitting at Chatham, is nearly rel, dy for sea,
and has commenced shipping her vietuallt:ng stores.
She has succeeded in obtaining nearly the whole of
her crew, and, according to present arranget-lents,
will sail on the 10th inst., when she procetll.3 to
spithead to await orders.

The Plover, 5, screw steam gun-vessel, 800-horse
power, will go into No. 2 dock at Chatham to day,
to be ria3e ready for service.
The Mallet and Pigeon, two contract screw gun-
boats built to:- the Admiralty at Sunderland, having
been surveyed and thoroughly examined by the
officials at Chatham dockyard,. have been put out
of dock.

During Tuesday Rear-AdMiral the Hon. F. T.
Pelham, C.B. (one of the Lords of the Admiraltl )
went on board the guardship of steam-ordinary
Wellington, 72, Captain Astley C. Key, C. 8., in
Hamoaze, and inspected her. It is reported in
Devonport that some other ship will be appointed
to this duty, and the Indus, 78, has been named.
Admiral Pelham: went also on board the paddle-
wheel steam frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. Frederick
11. H. Glasse, C. 8., in Plymouth Sound, which
subsequently got up steam and left for the Mediter-
ranean. 'She will be for the present attached to the
fleet there, and her head-quarters will be at Malta.
The new contract-built steam gun vessel Penguin,
4, was taken outside the Breakwater,Plymouth, on
Tuesday, by Commander Risk, to prove her machi-
nery, the first trial not having proved entirely
satisfactory. She returns to Hamoaze.
A trial of the machinery of the screw steamship
Orion, 91, Capt. J. B. Frere, was made on Tuesday,
alongside the jetty in the basin at Keyham steam-
yard. She was .ordered to be taken out of the
basin yesterday.
The riggers have commenced their work on the
lower masts of the paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser,
6, Comniander George M. Jackson, at Devonport.
The screw steamship St. George, 90, Capt. :the
lion. Francis 4gerten, slipped her mooring 4 in
Hamoaze on • Tuesday, and went into
,Plymouth
Sound.

The screw steal', gun vessel Viper, 4, Commander
W.... N.. W. Hewitt, which arrived in Plymouth
Sound from the West Coast of Africa on Monday
evening, was appointed to be inspected yesterday
by Captain .Terningham, of the gunnery ship Cam-
bridge, and to go up to Hamoaze, when her crew
will be paid off.
A committee appointed by the Great Yarmouth
Town Council has met Col. Haddon, R.E., with
respect to a site for a fort at the mouth of the har-
bour. A space of about three acres was selected
and approved. The estimated expense of the works
contemplated is stated to be from £lO,OOO to £20,000.

Letters received from the fleet in the Downs
state that they are ordered to Plymouth Sound
thence direct.

The Fire Queen, paddle, Master-Comman derPaul,
lit fires and got up her steam in the steam basin at
Portsmouth yesterday, to test her machinery at the
conclusion of repairs. Workmen are engaged on
the sheer jetty in Portsmouth dockyard iu putting
together Jones's target of shi ps' artgular, plate armour.
The whole, when placed in position and in readi-
ness to be affixed to the Sirius target•ship, will
weigh about 25 tons. Several other targets are
already attached to the sides of the Sirius's broad-
side for experimental gunnery practice. Two of
them consist of slabs of 4-inch iron, 15 feet 9 inches
each in length, by 3 feet in breadth. One of these
consists of three-quarters scrap and one-quarter
puddle. The other slab is composed of all scrap iron.
, Two other targets on the irins's side may be termed
-triliairr—urmour,!l-as it 41-: composed of half-inch
round steel bars interlac€4l with each other, and re-
presenting a flat and closely wicker-worked iron
hurdle. Six of these are bolted together, and then
present a mass of chainwork protruding 11 inches
from the sides of the vessel it is intended to protect.
Two other targets have yet to arrive, and be at-
tached with the others to the Sirius's side. the
experiments will be under the superintendence of
Capt. R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship
Exeellent.

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