The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-20 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

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The:Stanch, &jihad, and Hope, having shipped
large quantity of war stores at Chatham, have taken,
their departure fromthat port for the various nava'
establishments.
Lord Lovaine, M.P., the lay Lord of the Board of
Admiralty, visited Portsmouth Dockyard On
Saturday.
-Her Majesty's crew 'frigate
_Curacoa, 31, CuPS"
Thomas `H. Mason, arrived at -Spithead on Sat°.
day from the Mediterranean. • • -
The screw steam sloop Racer, 11, Commander I'.
A. Pakenham, from Gibraltar 7th inst., arrived 1111:1Tmcynth Fridriy 'inc.l weather
railed until To ssdwy, .-?t-hen :the esperieneed a ve,Q,
heart r.to solith-st the ~,iltrance to tn.
Clatiiha. She left at Gib sitar the.Curacoa, tl'eo
Vulture, and the Lapwing. The Curacoa ,was t 4
leave for England on :the 9th. The Racer
ordered to Gibraltar in consequence of the a.ssao"
nation of the British Consul at Tetuan.
-The screw steam ship lksperate, 8, Commander
R. G. Craigic, from Malta Nov. 24 and Gibralto
on the 6th inst., arrived at Plymouth Sound on Fri"
day afternoon. She left at Malta the Marlborough,
Hibernia, Conqueror, Princess Royal, Centuriool
Recruit, Osprey, Coquette, Boxer, and the Unit
States' steam frigate Wabash. She passed the Or
raeoa on Friday, at 10 a.m-., in the. Channel.
- Steam was got up on Friday on board the WI
sell, 60, Captain Henry A. Storey, in Hamoaze,
her departure for Falmouth was deferred by instruct°
tions froux Fort-Admiral Sir B. lleynoicig. 1114
command of her tender, the gun-boat Hind, lit'
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been transferred front Lieut. Win. Hambly to
Lieut. Francis Osburn.
The screw steam-frigate Liffey, 51, Capt. G. 18'.
le
Preedy, C. 8.. steamed from Hamoazo outside t.l
Breakwater on Friday, and then returned to iv
niouth Sound, whole she saluted the flag of ths
Comma!) der-in-Chief.
In March next, the Royal Adelaide, 104, is toll
made guard-ship of ordinary, in place of the lto:0„
William, 120, which is to be fitted for the receptl°-
of a screw propeller.
It is reported at Plymouth that the Channel ticcd
will remain during Christmas at Queenstown,
then repair to Lisbon. to
he President' of the United States has sent
Mr. John Gill, master mariner, of Plymoutb!c.
handsome medal, in remembrance of his prta,;e•
worthy conduct in April, 1854, in rescuing durlierit
a storm in the Atlantic, 74 passengers, men, woi''.);,
and children, from the dismasted ship Black 1100,
of New York from Liverpool, with 730 passengeL4,
the remainder of whom were saved by other resseo
On 'Friday,. evening the gunboat Leveret, To
Woolwich (tender to the Arrogant), LieutenaLr
command Annesley,,T. Denham, put into Sw-of
ness, in consequence of the sudden indispositio,lloo,
Lieutenant Denham. On Saturdayinorning, I'loo
Denham having obtained medical attendaneeolie°
was getting ready to proceed out of harbour, 1%,00
the new screw steam-frigate Forte, which 00
being towed down to the basin buoy by the st7ercs
tug-vessels African and Monkey, fouled the Le' etlo
while she was at her moorings, sprung the Levcil,.,
foremast, and did other damage. The F°rl:
ordered to be docked, and the LeYeret rerattill'oe
Sheerness to have the 'damage done to her by
Forte repaired. beeil
The Cossack, 20 guns, screw corvette, has e beat
completed for the third-class steam reservSheerness. •
The gunboat Ruby (tender to the CortiOja
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Lieutenant in command Robert J. Stother
-.Saturday last got on shore on Grain-spit,ne _.. '"
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Round Tower,-where she was left by the tide.
and dry.

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