The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-05 00:00:00

72,
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No. 22,949.

THE SUN, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1866.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

MARVELS in MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM, as per-
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President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

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same name.

Distressing Accident to a Lifeboat.

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LIZARD, CORNWALL, Jan. 3.
The Rev. P. Vyvyan Robinson states :—" With
the deepest regret I have to report that yesterday a
fatal accident happened to the lifeboat on this sta.-.
tion. I was out in the lifeboat with her crew yes-
terday, and for two hours she had behaved as gal-
lantly as possible in a very heavy sea ; but while
returning a tremendous wave overwhelmed her and
capsized the boat, breaking every oar except one.
Out of ten of us in the lifeboat seven succeeded in
getting into the boat, but, with one oar only, we
could not manage her, and she was quickly carried
on to the rocks, over which, with great difficulty
and hazard and many brUises, we got into a place
of safety. Mean's hile the lost men, whom I saw
and heard on rising to the surface, had been car-
ried into a counter current behind the great Stag
Rock, where they could neither get backwards nor
forwards. One was shortly carried out to sea, but
the other two might have been saved had we had
the rocket apparatus at the Lizard, but when
that arrived from Cadjwith it was too late,
and the men were dead. Unfortunately,
there is no house here where the apparatus
could be kept. The boat held on with her anchors
most marvellously for more than hour, bumping
about on the ledges, but at last it parted, and she
was quickly knocked to pieces on the rocks, for by
this time the gale had increased to a hurricane. The
names of the poor fellows who were lost were Peter
Mitchell, the coxswain, who has left a widow and
three children ; Richard Harris, the second coxswain,
widow and two children at home ; and Nicholas
Stevens, a widower, without children.
" I shall be very glad to receive the contributions
of the benevolent towards the future support of the
poor widows and orphans."
We may add that the case of the families of the
deceased lifeboat men was taken into consideration
at a meeting of the National Lifeboat Institution
held yesterday, when, with expressions of deep
sympathy, £lOO was voted to the two poor widows
and five children.

SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and
11011 E, Hampstead. Office% 77, Cornhill.
PATRON—The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES. _ _

Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, I The Rev. Canon Champneys
R.N. I Thoms Baring, Esq., M.P.

TREASURERS. ... • a
R. 11 L. Bevan, Esq. Robert llanbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
want, viz , an asylum for the ornha•i daughters of sailors in
the Royal Navy and Merchants service and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service- and provides a home free of expense for former
Inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the
recent storms and loss t life at sea, and t o enable them
eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions than!lully received by the bankers, Messrs
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the °faces, No. 77, Cornhill.
R. SWEETTNG, Hon. Sec.
CHARLES NASH, See.

A new lifeboat will be sent to the Lizard in a few
days, as the institution nearly always has boats
ready to meet such emergencies, which happily are
of very rare occurrence. In fact, the lifeboats of the
society have been manned during the past three
years, on occasions of service and exercise, by up-
wards of 18,000 persons, and six lives only have been
lost, including the three men above named. In a
fleet of 153 lifeboats it is to be feared that such
accidents must occasionally be expected.

The crew of the screw steam frigate Orlando,
600 in all, were paid off at Devonport yesterday
morning in three-quarters of an hour, in the pre-
sence of Admiral-Superintendent Symons. They
appear to have conducted themselves with propriety
throughout the commission, and at parting Captain
Dixon complimented them by saying he never
wished for better men, and hoped that, whatever
ship they joined hereafter, they would leave her
with as much gratification to the officer in com-
mand. The crew mustered on the jetty, their own
band playing " Auld Lang Syne" and " God save
the Queen." They then cheered the captain and
officers, and, with colours flying, marched four deep
into Fore-street, headed by the marines. Here
there was a renewal of hearty greetings prior to
final separation. The frigate and her engines are
stated to be in excellent order. The following re-
ceived medals : —Samuel Tressider, gratuity, £l5 ;
pension, £4l 16s. ; Daniel C. Cole, gratuity, £lO ;
pension, £3O Bs. ; Thomas Turner, gratuity, £l5 ;
James Hales, £l5 ; pension, £34 19s. ; and Henry
M'Leod, £10; pension, £24 6s:- Wm. Webber re-
ceived the Humane Society's medal forsaving the life
of R. Braun, off Marseilles. The Rev. W. L. Graham,
chaplain of the Gibraltar, who joined the Orlando
on her return to England, was discharged from the
frigate on arrival, in compliance with the decision
of the Court of Inquiry held at Malta, and consist-
ing of Admiral Kellet and Captains Campbell and
Napier.
The Malacca, 17, screw corvette, Capt. Oldfield,
made her official trial of speed yesterday at the mea-
sured mile in Stokes Bay, under the supervision of
the officers of the steam factory and reserve of Ports-
mouth dockyard. The ship was down to her load-
line draught, having officers and crew, with alistores
on board. She drew 15ft. 10in. of water forward,
and 18ft. aft. The wind was moderate during the
trial, and the sea smooth, the six runs being made
over the mile with the following general results :
Ship's speed, Ist run, 9.724 knots ; 2d, 9.375 ; 3d,
9.677 ; 4th, 9.376 ; sth, 10.112 ; 6th, 8-846. The
mean measured mile speed of the ship was 9.576
knots. The maximum number of revolutions 92,
the pressure of steam 201 b., and the vacuum 27in.
forward and aft. In trying her turning powers the
ship completed her course each time as follows :
With full boiler power—Half circles, to port, 2min.
35sec. ; to starboard, 2min. 27sec. Full circles.--
To port, 2min. 35sec. ; to starboard, snain. 20sec.
Revolutions--Before entering circle, 92 ; after do.,
86. With half boiler power—Half circles, to port,
2min. 56sec. ; to starboard, 3min. 6sec. Full circles
—To port, smin. 50sec. ; to starboard, 6min.
20sec. Revolutions of engines—Before entering
circle, 91; afterwards, 87. The Malacca is of
1,034 tons, and her engines are 200 horse power,
nominal, driving a Griffith's two-bladed screw. The
trial of the ship's machinery yesterday gave full sa-
tisfaction, and the ship will sail from Spithead for
foreign service as soon as the weather sufficiently
moderates to admit of her getting down Channel.
The paddlewheel steamer Hermes, 6, attached to
the third division of the Chatham Steam Reserve,
having been surveyed at the hands of the officials
connected with the master shipwright's staff, and
been found unfitted for further service, was yester-
day taken in tow by the Locust and Otter paddle-
wheel steamers, and removed round to the shipbreak-
ing yards of Messrs. Castle and Beach, at Deptford,,
for the purpose of being taken to pieces. The whole
of the smaller class of sailing frigates and sloops,
-
some years been lying rotting in the Medway, and
impeding the navigation of Chatham harbour, have
now been got rid of by the Admiralty, and have
either been sold out of the service by public or pri-
vate contract, or, when circumstances rendered it
necessary to do so, have been broken up. There now
remain in the river only the larger class of the old
line-of-battle sailing ships, together with a large
squadron of variousdescriptions of steamers attached
to the reserve, all of which could be made available
for service in a comparatively short period, should
their services be suddenly required.
The Monkey paddlewheel steamer arrived at Chat-
ham yesterday, for the purpose of towing round to
Woolwich one of the iron mortar boats laid up at
that establishment, an Admiralty order directing it
to be converted at Woolwich into a transport for
service at that dockyard.

The official trial of the twin-screw launch con-
structed for a steam tender for her Majesty's iron-
clad frigate Bellerophon, took place at the mea-
sured mile, Saltpan Reach, near Chatham, on
Wednesday, under the superintendence of the
officials connected with the Chatham steam reserve.
The screw launch is similar in all respects to
that constructed for the Bombay, and which was
destroyed when that vessel was burnt. The engines
and machinery were constructed by Messrs. John
Penn and Son, the makers of the engines for the
Bellerophon. They are made on the high-pressure
principle, each engine driving a separate screw
working beneath the vessel's counter. Each screw
is driven by its own shafting. The screws, which
are exactly similar in pattern, are each 3-ft. 6. in.
long, 2-ft. 6-in. in diameter, and set at a pitch of
3-ft. 11-in., with an immersion of the upper edge
of one inch. On leaving the harbour to make the
official runs, the draught of water was found to be
3-ft. aft, and 1-ft. 9-in. forward, with 19cwt. of
coals, two tons of ballast, and ten persons on board.
The trials were under the superintendence of Capt.
Randolph, commanding the steam reserve, Mr. An-
derson- representing the firm of Messrs. Penn and
Son. Although a stiff breeze was blowing the
whole time from the south-west, the steamer at-
tained a high rate of speed, and fully demonstrated
the value of the twin-screw principle, the mean of
the six runs over the measured mile giving an aver-
age speed of 7.718 knots per hour. The highest
number of revolutions of the screw was 396 and the
lowest 355 per minute ; mean pressure of steam
801 b.; load on safety-valve, 1001 b. The diameter
of each of the cylinders is five inches, and
the length of the stroke six inches. After making
the official runs the vessel was tried in making the
circle, when, the rudder being left free and the port-
engines moving ahead and the starboard engines
astern, the complete circle was made in exactly 59
seconds, the steamer turning in exactly her own
length. At the close of the trials the vessel steamed
up to the dockyard, against a strong ebb tide, at a
speed of six knots per hour.
The paddle-wheel steamer Medusa, 6, 312-horse
power, Master Commander T. Potter, arrived at
Chatham yesterday, and went alongside the Wel-
lesley, 72, when she received the whole of the
boys and lads on board from that vesssl for con-
veyance round to Devonport to the Ganges, 84, to
which training-ship they are to be transferred. The
Wellesley will resume her former dutyas flagship and
guardship at Chatham, Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8.,
hoisting his flag on board on his promotion to the rank
of Commodore. The supernumerary seamen not re-
quired to be retained on board on the removal of
the boys and lads to the Ganges have been trans-
ferred to the Royal Naval Barracks.
The paddle-wheel steamer Virago, 6, 300-horse
power, attached to the Chatham steam reserve, is
undergoing most extensive repairs to both hull and
machinery in No. 1 dock, in order that she may be
brought forward for commission. Her machinery
has been removed into the factory for a thorough
overhaul and repair, and her boilers have been
taken out. The nature of the repairs ordered to be
carried out will detain her in dock for some months.

FATAL OCCURRENCE ON THE THAMES.—Yesterday
three men, named Mills, Taylor, and Bryant, all
ships' carpenters, in the employ of Mr. Collins, of Dept-
ford, had been out repairing a craft, which was lying in the
river, and were returning home to breakfast, when their
boat getting between two barges was smashed, and all three
men were immersed. Taylor and Bryant were rescued,
but Mills was drowned. About the same time, on board
the Gabrielle, from Rotterdam, lying off Wapping, a 'ail
named Spiel, fell from the rigging on the deck of the vessel,
and was so dreadfully injured that little hope is entertained
of his recovery.

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tages hare been pulled down on the west of Bar-
rack-lane, and men are now engaged in clearing
the ground.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander Frederick W. Wilson
to the Hector; Lieut. Charles T. Chute to the Ex-
cellent; Lieut. James F. Baker to the Canopus ;
Lieut. Maddock R. M. Griffith to the Excellent ;
Lieut. John B. Creagh to the Hastings; Lieut.
Verney L. Cameron to the Excellent; Lieut. Fran-
cis Hayter to the Excellent ; John F. Mitchell,
surg., to the Pantaloon ; Alfred Hackman, acting
second master, additional, to the Victory ; E. W.
R. Veale, assist.-paymaster, additional, to the
Royal Adelaide; John Bremner, assist.-paymaster,
to the Royal George; 11. B. Newton, master's-as-
sistant, additional, to the Royal Adelaide ; and
James F. Fort, master's-assistant, to the Fox.