The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-01 00:00:00

211-E NAVY.

The screw frigate Galatea, 26, 800-horse power
(nominal), is ordered to be sent from Woolwich to
Chatham, with all her rigging, masts, spars, and_
sails to be taken into dock and fitted for the second
division of the steam reserve in the Medway.
Her Majesty's ship Mars weighed on Monday'
and proceeded outside Portland. In the afternoon
the crew were exercised at general quarters, firing
at a mark. The firing was good, one target having
been shot away. At 11 they went to night guar'
ters with blank cartridge. The ship has a young
crew, but is getting into order.
The Rhadamanthus sailed for Woolwich from
Portsmouth yesterday.
Workmen are busy working early and late on
the Duncan, 101, at Portsmouth, to prepare for
launching.
The gunboats Swinger and Pincher, at ports'
mouth, have been placed in the steam basin.
Her Majesty's ship Vulcan will receive at the.
dockyard to-day at Portsmouth one subaltern and
92 men of the Royal Artillery, one subaltern and uff
men of the Ist battalion of 2d Foot ; also
st„a
Assist.-Surgs. Maher, White, Page, and Carsth",s
Purveyor's Clerk Dungey, Military Store Clerfl‘r
Gordon and Crawford, and Dispenser Davies' .C)
China. The Vulcan will then proceed to Dublin.'
and embark a detachment of the Ist battalion o_l.
the 3d Buffs for China, and a detachment of the
battalion of the 10th Foot for the Cape of 6%)
Hope.
The screw steamship Edgar, 91, Capt. James
Caton, flag of Admiral Erskine, which arrived 111„
Plymoutb Sound on Monday, left at Gibraltar NU,
8-inch guns of 65 cwt. each and 20 32-pounderath°l 0
58 cwt. each, for the purpose of strengthening„
fortifications. The armament of the Edgar will"

completed at Plymouth.
oath Sound
The gunboat Magpie went from Plyul urld
on Tuesday into Hamoaze to have defects rasue
good.
oath, were
The Conqueror and Centurion at Ply
inspected on Tuesday by Rear-Admiral Erskine, sie'
will come into harbour on Wednesday, where the!
will be paid off all standing, and re-commiss°,
Their defects are to be mach: ssiblu
good with all 1)9
despatch. fleet,
The officers and crew of the steamehiP C„,, thn
8, Commander Sullivan, are to be tranferree to
the
of
Conflict steam sloop Greyhound, 17. The defects wad
have been found more extensive than -
at first supposed. Firefly,
The crew of her Majesty's steamer awarded
Master Commander Taylor, were yesterday on,
the sum of £2O, received from Mr. mitchell cbeir
tractor for the harbour works of Guernsey, for thich
successful efforts in saving his barges, tful
drifted from their moorings during the e n night.
gales of the 25th of October last, to b,
the commanding officer,
The above named sum was yesterday distribute
each
I°s.ile-elf
man. The same crew, who are composed entirely
of Guernsey men, were likewise successful on tiro
same occasion in rescuing the lives of the„erover
ship's company belonging to a French oe"' the
and amounted to
named the Blanche Marie. On perceiving, rof
perilous condition of the ship, the CO
despatchedhe Firefl lying in the open roadstead of uerevi
his cutter alongside, mannedbon to
ara,
eight of the crew, and took every one
co
break
hours after which the schooner was sr the
up. This act of bravery was notified by
French Consul to his Government. t TOY
The following appointments were made Yese• eat
at the Admiralty :—J. G. Oakshott, chief elig,llo.t.
to
the
Cumberland, for the Tartar; George. 'lot.
e t and Thomas Young, acting third-class asses
engineers, to the Asia, as supernumeraries.