The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-30 00:00:00

Naval and Mtlitary Intelligence.

On Monday tha Board of Admiralty, consisting
of the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, M.P., First
Lord, Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, Rear-
Admiral Sir John Hay, M.P., Mr. Charles Du
Cane, M.P., and Lord Henry G. Lennox, M.P.,
Secretary, accompanied by the Control of the
Navy, the Controller of Victualling, and trio Dire-
ctor of Engineering and Architectural Works, paid
their annual visit to the Royal dock and victualling
yards, Deptford. They arrived about half-past 11
o'clock, and were received by the Superintendent,
Capt. A. P. Eardley Wilmot, C.C., A.D.C., and
the principal officers of both yards. After remaining
about an hour in the Superintendents office, trans-
acting official business, they proceeded to inspect the
ships building, which occupied some time. Two
composite gunboats attracted the particular notice
of their Lordships—the Thistle and Boxer, twin
screws, intended for special service in the China Seas
under Sir Henry Keppel. They went over the slips
where the Philomel, Curlew, and Spartan gunvessels
are in course of building, inspected the large basin
recently cleared out and the caisson at its entrance
from the river, and passed through the timber!

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ground and tank store into the Victualling-yard.
The superintendent then conducted them over the
steam cooperage, where extensive improvements are
being made, and through several of the manufac-
tories of provisions for the navy. Their Lordships
lunched with the Superintendent at his official resi-
dence, and took their departure for Greenwich
Hospital at half-past three.

The United States' navy practice squadron, under
the command of Commodore S. B. Luce, consisting
of the sailing corvettes Macedonian, 18 guns, Capt.
S. 0. Selfridge (flag); the Savannah, 12 guns, Capt.
B. Taylor, and the Dale, 6 guns, Capt. R. IV.
Meade, arrived and anchored at Spithead yesterday
morning from Cherbourg. On anchoring, the
Commodore's ship exchanged salutes with the gar-
rison and the flagship of Admiral Sir Thomas S.
Pasley, the Port Admiral and Naval Commander-
in. Chief.

The turret ships Royal Sovereign, Capt. C. P.
Coles, C. 8., and %Vivern, Capt. Burgoyne, V.C.,
steamed out yesterday from Portsmouth
into the
Channel for a day's practice with their 9-inch rifles,
and drill with turrets and gun-carriages.
The Nymphe, 4, unarmoured screw sloop, 1,084
tons, 300 horse power, Commander T. Barnadiston,
made her official trial of speed yesterday over the
measured mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, and
attained a mean speed of 13.066 knots with full-
boiler power, and 10.447 knots with half-boiler
power. The load on the safety valve was 301 b. ;
mean revolutions of engines with full power, 102 ;
with half power, 78 ; the steam pressure, 28-51 b. ;
the vacuum, 26in. The engines were constructed
by Maudslay, Field, and Son on their three cylinder
principle, and are fitted with surface condensers
and superheaters according to the new Admiralty
fashion, the terms now imposed upon contractors
being that all marine engines built for the Admi-
ralty shall exert, according to their indicator cards,
six times their nominal power. The Nymphe's en-
gines drive a two-bladed Griffiths screw, fitted with
Maudslay's shifting blades, of 15ft. diameter, and
set at a pitch of 15ft. ; the cylinders of the engines
have a diameter of 55in., and a length of stroke of
30in.

The following'appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Staff Commander W. S. Luke
to the Fisgard, to take charge of Dock, for Ber-
muda ; Dr. T. Browne, assist.-surg., to the St.
Vincent; S. Clements, chief engineer, to the Liffey;
J. T. William, chief engineer, to the Lord Warden ;
W. H. Lowman and E. Taylor, engineers, to the
Liffey ; E. Hawke, D. Wilson, and J. (Anderson,
engineers, to the Lord Warden ; A. Wilson, first-
class assist-engineer,. to the Liffey; W. E. Grigg,
first-class assist.-engineer, to- the Lord Warden ;
W. J. Owens, second-class assist.-engineer, to the
Liffey ; G. Fricker, second-class assist.-engineer to
the Lord Warden, and Francis Tunnard, nomi-
nated a naval cadet.