The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The following vessels are refitting for service,
and receiving their outfit for the steam reserve, &c.,
in Portsmouth harbour and dockyard :—Mevera,
screw troopship. Commander Henderson, at sailing
moorings in harbour; complete and ready for ser-
vice. Edgar, 91, screw, Capt. J. Katon, bearing
the flag of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine ; refitting
alongside Pitch-house Jetty. Algiers, 91, screw,
Capt. Geo. D. O'Callaghan; refitting alongside
sheer-jetty. Eagle, 50, training frigate, Comman-
L der Strode, fitting alongside Victorious hulk. Gor-
gon, 6, paddle, Commander B. C. Tim, completing
her refit in the steam-basin ; Prince of Wales, 131,
screw; Frederick William, 91, screw; Sutlej, 51,
screw ; Tribune, 32, screw ; Pelican, 17, screw, and
Stromboli and Rosamond, 6, paddles—all in the
steam basin, fitting for the second- 3159 s reserve.
The Prince of Wales, in official phraseology, will
be out of the hands of the dockyard on the 31st
inst. Alongside the north wall of the yard, the
Philomel, 6, screw, Cygnet, 6, screw (sister vessels)
and two gunboats are fitting for the reserve. The
Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent gunnery-
ship, is also:nere, completing her repa;rs for further
service. In the ship basin are berthed the Volcano,
6, paddle, and the Harrier, 17, screw, both fitting
out for the reserve, the first named as a floating
steam factory. The Foxhound, 6, screw, Comman-
der Mitchell, in No. 1 dock, has been examining
copper, Kingston valves, &c., and comes out to-
day's tide. At Spithea3 are the Trafalgar, 91,
screw. Capt. Fanshawe, refitting as a part of the
Channel Fleet; the Tartar, 21, screw, Capt. Hayes ;
the Spiteful, 6, paddle, Commander Wilson; and

the Landrail, 5, screw, Commander Martin. The
Tartar will sail in two or three days for the Pacific.
The Spiteful and the Landrail are completing re-
pairs to sundry slight defects, and awaiting sailing
orders, expected for the West Coast of Africa.
The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, Thomas C.
Pullen master-commanding, from Woolwich, with
boilers and engine gear for the Liverpool, arrived at
Plymouth on Saturday, and was placed in the north
basin at Keyham steamyard to unload. She brought
some supernumerary artisans for the guardship
Royal Adelaide.

The artisans in Keyham steamyard are reducing
the corners of the propeller of the screw steamship
Aboukir, 91. now under repair there.

The screw steamship Donegal, 101, Capt. Henry
Broadhead, left Hamoaze en Friday under steam,
and went into Plymouth Sound, where, on Satur-
day, she received her powder.
The screw steam sloop Curlew, 9, Commander
Shaw, left Plymouth Sound on Friday, under steam,
for Rio Janeiro.

The water was yesterday admitted into the old
ship basin in Portsmouth dockyard on the comple-
tion of the work of lengthening Nos. 3 and 4 docks
by the stern. The Harrier, 17, screw, from No. 2,
and the Volcano, 6, paddle, from No. 4, have been
undocked and berthed in the basin to fit out for the
steam reserve. The resumption of the use of this
basin for the outfit of small class vessels will greatly
relieve the pressure in the steam basin and at other
parts of the dockyard.
The Excellent gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth, Capt.
R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., having completed her outfit
and shipped her stores and armament in the steam
basin, has moved out and taken up her moorings off
the north part of the dockyard.
The Gorgon, 6, paddle, Commander B. C. Pim,
got up steam yesterday in the steam basin at Ports-
mouth to test machinery, &c. She has received a
thorough overhaul in both hull and machinery, and
her upper deck has received new planking through-
out. She was built from designs by the late Sir
W. Symonds at Deptford in 1837, is 1,111 tons
burden, and 320-horse power.
The weather at Portsmouth during the past three
days has been very wild and unsettled, with copi-
ous falls of rain. Yesterday the wind increased its
force from W.S.W., and the danger flag was hoisted
from her Majesty's ship Victory, and the shipping
in the harbour.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—J. H. Carruthers, surgeon, to
the Formidable; IL Harding, acting assistant-sur-
geon, to the Miranda; W. Johnston, acting assist.-
surgeon, to the Victory ; C. H. B,ason, acting assis-
tant-surgeon, to the Nile; Arthur Jones, secretary
to Admiral Sir H. Stewart ; and Henry Perry, se-
cretary to Vice-Admiral Johnstone.

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