The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-20 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered the
Trincomalee, 24, to be brought up from the reserve
in ordinary at Chatham, and taken into deck, in
order to be fitted as a training ship for the Naval
Coast Volunteers at Newcastle and Sunderland. As
soon as the Trincomalee is completed she will be
sent round to the Tyne, where she will be stationed.
The Arethusa, 50, was yesterday brought up from
Chatham Harbour to be taken into the dock vacated
on the previous day by the line-of-battle screw
steamer Rodney, 91. The Arethusa is to be con-
siderably lengthened, in order to be converted into a
51-gun screw frigate.
The Albatross, 12, one of the old class of sailing
sloops, will go into the dock vacated by the Plover
gunboat, where she will be broken up.
The Rhadamanthus, paddle, Master Commander
Sturdee, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning
from Woolwich, on her experimental trip, under
the superintendence of Mr. John Dinnen, Admi-
ralty inspector of machinery afloat. She brought
round supernumeraries, &c., who were sent on board
the Victory flagship.
The Forte, 51, screw, Capt. E. Turnour, and flag
of Rear-Admiral Sir H. Keppell, is ordered to have
the leading corners of her screw removed, prior to
her leaving Portsmouth, with a view to lessen the
vibratory motion at her stern, which is stated to be
very. great when under fall steam. Her stern-
framing is also said to have exhibited great signs of
weakness.

The Victoria and Albert, Royal paddle-yacht,
Capt. Hon. Joseph Denman, arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday morning from her cruise to Gibraltar.
She sailed from the Rock on her return on the 9th
inst., at which time the Hannibal, 91, screw, bear-
ing the flagof Rear-Admiral Mundy, with the
Agamemnon, 91, screw ; the James Watt, 91, screw;
the Doris, 32, screw ; the Scylla, 21, screw ; the go:
hawk, 4, screw ; and the Lapwing, 4, screw, were at
that anchorage, but were about to sail for Malta.
She called at Cadiz and Lisbon on her return
voyage, leaving the latter place shortly after mid'
night on the 14th inst. There were then at ad'
chor in the Tagus the Trafalgar, 91, screw ; the
Centurion, 81, screw ; and the Diadem, 32, screw"
which were expected to sail thence for England on
the 16th instant. Vigo and Ferrol were subs&
quently visited by the Royal Yacht, but in cros-
sing the Bay she unfortunately broke her port
paddle-shaft. The wheel was secured, and the
remainder of the voyage was made with the re'
maining wheel. The superheating gear which has
been recently fitted to the yacht required consider'
able modifications prior to being possible to use it
on board. It is stated to have choked the draugli.
of the fires, prevented the generation of steam, "ll°
worse than all, covered the quarter-deck with e"
halations from the funnel. The behaviour of the
yacht at sea, during the passage out and home, alli
with heavy weather, is spoken of by all on board,
with the greatest possible praise. It is stated t 11:.
with a strong head wind she made 13 knots WIL9,
scarcely any motion, and nothing beyond an ece
sional slight shower of spray over her bows. CaPr,
Matthew Connolly, late Flag-Captain to Rea
Admiral Mundy, came home passenger by t'rt
yacht from Gibraltar. The Victoria and Albeit,
will go into the steam basin to receive a new ella
and burnish up for summer service.
The successor of George Lambe, gunner (di;
missed by Court-martial from the service), Join
the screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. K. Barnard, m
Plymouth Sound on Wednesday morning, and so
got up steam immediately, tripped her anchor!t a
proceeded for her destination, Bermuda, withAltaa
fair wind from the eastward. On arrival at ~
West India station she will hoist the flag of Rear
Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.B. ravt.
The screw steam frigate Melpomene, 51, '-', 100
C. F. Ewart, got up steam in Plymouth Soud.o
Tuesday, and went into Hamoaze to be fitted t'ir
the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, th_e_rai,
cently appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Isle
terranean. ander
The screw steam sloop Surprise, 4, Comm ip
Lord Edward Cecil, was removed from the bast,_ueer
the Devonport Dockyard on Tuesday to the eri.o
hulk Kent, where her masts were taken out; "
was then replaced in her former berth.
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The new contract-built screw steam gun at the
Penguin, 6, was taken into the North dock
Devonport Dockyard on Tuesday, to be copPe`
Sze. reis°
The attempt at Plymouth on Wednesday t?urige
the stranded transport Havering with four olds ill
was unsuccessful. Two Government " lumps rd of
probably assist at the next attempt. The Boar .05
Trade have determined to hold the inquiry re ma"
to the loss of the Havering before the county or
gistrates at Stonehouse, and not before the
and magistrates at Plymouth, as first announeeeuser..
The following appointments were reads 1.. Air.
day at the Admiralty :—W. J. Olive andetit'
Bateman, masters additional, to the Fisgard p•
C.Mo'svßir.iind'e,aasssissistatanx g ti- .ssurgeon,u n to
t o the
the I
Bacchante;
O'D. Parks, acting assistant-surgeon, to the
chante ; John E. Gage, master's-assistant, to
assistant-surgeon,
eompreg n a
thb.l e
Russell; Ashby N. Inns, assistant-clerice,!n, to
Virago; and Robert Dinwiddie, assistant
the Victory, for service in the secretay.y,shiup;lo
In the naval appointments yesterday Mlaappointed
Spicer and Burnell were represented
Zs Albert.
to the Bacchante, instead of the Roy