The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-16 00:00:00

THE CHANNEL SQUADRON.

FALMO unr, Monday Morning.
The Admiral had intimated his desire to leave
Falmouth. But at an early hour, at eight o'clock,
the ships crossed topgallant and royal yards, loosed
sails, and hauled out to a bow-line, while the strains
of the National Anthem from all the ships floated
pleasingly on the cool, calm air.

The engineers were ordered to light so many
boiler fires as would send them along at the rate of
six knots. The ironclad squadron had received on
Sunday an important addition to their number in
the shape of the Lord Clyde—an ugly shape it is,
but a formidable and efficient ship.
At ten minutes past 10 the order was given to
" weigh anchor and make all plain sail." In a
few minutes all were in motion, the Lord Clyde,
although a newly-commissioned ship, appeared very
smart aloft. There was a light air from north-west,
to which all possible sail was ordered to be made.
The Lord Clyde was the first to set her maintopgal-
lant studding sails ; the flagship cleverly set all her
studding-sails together, or nearly all.
The order of sailing was slightly altered. The
Lord Clyde took her place in the rear of the wea-
ther line. The Liverpool took the corresponding
position in the lee line, and thus the six ships went
on, in smooth water, for an hour or two ; then the
sails were furled. The order to steam eight knots,
steering E. by S., was given ; no steam tactics or
ramming occurred. At 350 the signal to make all
possible sail was displayed, and the Caledonia again
exhibited pre-eminent smartness. It was good,
wholesome exercise for the men, if it accomplished
no other object, and will all come out very nicely
in the full, accurate, auJ exhaustive report, which,
doubtless, the Admiral willplace in the hands of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in due course.
The projecting snout of the Lord Clyde forced up
a large wave before it, far greater than any of the
ironclads; at greater speed it would probably im-
pede her progress. One night the ships went to
general quarters about 10 o'clock. They fired away
for half an hour, after which performance all
was still again. On Monday evening we were
off the Start-point. The lights of Brixham and
Torquay sparkled pleasantly in view. The Admiral
displayed a number of lights all over his rigging,
and made a number of flashes which, as Dundreary
says, " no fellow can understand," and which were
not generally made out. It seems well that Lieut.
Colomb, R.N., or somebody, should revise this part
of the signals. On Tuesday morning we found our-
selves at anchor inside the breakwater at Portland.
It was truly a man-of-war's cruise—there and back
—and if it has proved nothing else it has at least
clearly established this—that Sir J. Pakington on a
recent occasion must have been either " kinder sar-
castic," or slightly unreasonable, or over-anxious
about the sea defence of our coasts, when he com-
plained of the attenuated state of the floating por-
tion. Have not four ironclads fairly gone, in the
month of August, from Portland to Falmouth and
back again, only putting in once at Torbay from
stress of weather, without breaking down or running
into each other or getting ashore ? Have they not
fired their guns at sea ? Did they not actually shift
topsail yards and make all sail, to studding sails, in
periods varying from half an hour to an hour and a
half ? Did not a fifth ironclad join them at Fal-
mouth ? And are there not ever so many more
somewhere, which may be eltpected to do the same
some day or other ?

The consumption of coal was :—Achilles, 271
tons ; Caledonia, 25 ; Hector, 26 ; Lord Clyde,
261 ; Liverpool, 181 ; Helicon, 7 ; Pallas, 9f—say
140 tons—to steam at the rate of eight knots, in
smooth water and with a fair wind, about 100 miles.
There are about 3,000 sailors in this squadron.
They have about 120 on the sick lists and 30 at
hospitals, and they are now to undergo the ordeal
of an inspection by the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty on Friday next.

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