The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-16 00:00:00

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The Trafalgar, 91, screw-steamer, oneing. url,S s.
docked at Chatham, will be towed to Sheernesg •
dockyard, where she will; receive her machin'orir.
The Rodney, old 90-gun
,sailing ship, is expepted
at Chatham to-day to go into the'dock vacated' by..
the Trafalgar. She is the fist finished, out of six
120-gun ships which have been cut down and -
altered. She goes out of dock on Saturday next.
She is considered to be the finest ship in the service..
The Hood, screw steam ship, building in Chathani * •
Dockyard, and which is ordered by the Adiniralty. ,
to be launched on the 4th of May, has had 200 mgr!
put on her. Her keel was laid down in 1819 .for
an 80-gun sailing ship; in 1854 she was cut asunder,
and the after part launched 'away for, neatlsr:,l4.,
feet, and she is now converted into a 91-gnu screw,
having GOO-horsepower engines. - •- • - • - -
The additional shipwrights ordered to be em..
played to facilitate the completion of the Ariadne
and. Newcastle have all been entered, amounting to
100; they are chiefly from the northern ports,,
such as Sunderland, Newcastle, and Shields, and...
are said to be a fine body of men. *- ' •
Her Majesty's steam sloop Ardent, Commander
Cave, ordered to be docked at Woolwich., yester-• -
day steamed down the river on trial of her
machinery, and will leave this morning at an early
hour for 'Sheerness, where there is to be a court-
martial to ascertain the cause of the ship going,.
ashore, whereby she has been severely. damaged.
The Leopard, 18, - -paddlewheel steam-frigite.
Captain J. F. B. Wainwright, arrived at Spithead
yesterday from the eastward. •
The Diligence navy transport, Master. 'Com-
mander Crook, sailed - from Portsmouth . yesterday
for the eastern yards. -
The Mersey, 40, screw steam frigate, Captain_ H.
Caldwell, C. 8., in the steam basin at Portsmouth,
has taken in stores to 22 feet draught of water.
She will go
,out of the steam basin this day, and.
berth alongside the Caniperdown hulk, where she
will complete her stores, &c., prior to • testing her
speed at the measured mile.
The Melpomene, 51, screw steam-frigate, along-.
side the sheer jetty at Portsmouth dockyard, has
fidded fore and main topmasts. She will move into,.
the steam basin to complete her equipment.
The Agamemnon, 91, screw steamship, in the
steam basin at Portsmouth, has completed masting.
She will get her lower rigging over her mastheads,
and be placed in the same classed reserve as the
Royal Sovereign, 131, also fitting in the steam
basin at the same port.
The Algiers, 91, Captain G. IV. D. O'Callaghan,
at Spithead, yesterday commenced taking in her
lower deck
.guns, powder, shell, &c.
The Sprightly paddlewheel steamer, Master
Commander Allen, went out of Portsmouth-har-
bour yasterday to Spithead to take the military and
naval invalids out of the Urgent which arrived the
previous day from Malta (as reported in The Sun
of yesterday), but was compelled to return to the
harbour withont effecting her object, owing to the.
rough state of the weather.
Captain D. Blyth, Lieutenant H. H. West,
Lieutenant M. Hogge, Lieutenant T. P. Norton,
and 126 non-commissioned officers and men of the
Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry
are ordered to be held in readiness to proceed from
headquarters to embark on board the line-Of-battle
screw steamship Hero, 91, fitting at Devonport.:
The entry of the hired artificers at Chatham
dockyard is nearly completed, and, with the excep-
tion of about 50 men, the whole of the additional
shipwrights have been entered at the establish-
ment.

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About 600 Sunderland shipwrights have left, that
town within the last few weeks to take employ-
ment in the Government dockyards. Eighty addi-
tional hands left by steamship on Saturday. They
have all found employment at Deptford, Woolwich
and Chatham. The Government are fitting up the
defences at the mouth of the Tyne with 32-pounders.
The Elswick Works on the Tyne are being further
extended, with a view of making Armstrong guns
of larger calibre than was at first contemplated.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—A. Howard, assistant-paymaster
to the Doris, and E. C. Taylor, clerk to the Hero.