The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-07 00:00:00

r- The Warrior has arrived at Queenstown, after a
trial trip of six days. She has realised the highest
expectations entertained of her. The speed she
reached with steam and under canvass is said to
have been 17 knots an hour.
The return of the Emerald, 81, to the Sound, after
an ineffectual effort to reach Halifax, has created
considerable interest among the naval community
at Plymouth. It appears that the frigate, which
left Spithead on the sth of October, encountered on
the 10th, 11th, 13th, and subsequently a succession
of heavy gales from north-north-west to south-south-
west, from the effects of which she was compelled
on the 22d to put back, being then in lat 48 N, and
long. 37 W. During all this time there was exces-
sive rolling, aecelerated, it is said, by the weight of
her armament. Although thoroughly caulked before
departure, she leaked " like a sieve" after the first
gale. Subsequently some of the beams and knees
in the lower deck and the after sternpost were
started. The ship's pumps were broken, and the
discharge pipe of the engines split, by
i which and
other injuries they were several days n a disabled
state. It is satisfactory to know that the crew con-
tinued well-disciplined throughout the storm and
its contingencies. The Emerald passed the War-
rior and Revenge in the chops of the Channel on
Monday night. Yesterday she got up steam, and,
aided by the steamtugs Prospero and Zephyr, pro-
ceeded from the Sound into Hamoaze. It is conjec-
tured that the Emerald will not now go to Halifax
but direct from Plymouth to Vera Cruz.
Orders have been received from the Admiralty at
Devonport to prepare thescrew steam corvette Satel-
lite, 21, for the pennant. She belongs to the first
division of the steam reserve, and is now in No. 3
dock, Keyham steamyard.
The screw steam gunboat Doterel, 4, went from
Hamoaze on Tuesday evening into Plymouth Sound,
where she received her powder preparatory to sail-
ing for South America on the receipt of orders.
The Aboukir, 84, at Plymouth, has received some
Armstrong guns.
Orders have been received from the Admiralty at
Portsmouth to complete the stern of the iron-cased
frigate Royal Alfred with a circular screw well,
similar in character to that of the Warrior, to
enable her to carry the Griffiths propeller. It was
understood some short time since, on the work to
the sterns of ships of the Royal Alfred class being
suspended, that their screw wells were to be done
away with altogether, with the view of strength-
ening the ships' sterns as well as of securing them
from damage to their outer sternposts in action.
The Duncan screw liner, in No. 7 dock at Ports-
mouth, has had the massive metal braces which
pass along the bottom part of her sternposts on to
her main keel removed, and will have them replaced
by others of greater length and substance, in order,
if possible, to strengthen the outer sternpost in its
position. The Duncan is however one of those in-
stances of weakness in the outer sternpost that no
amount of patching will remove to the extent
necessary to enable the ship to stand for any length
of time the working of the screw.
.A notification was yesterday received at Chatham
from the Admiralty, to the effect that, in conse-
quence of there being now a sufficient quantity of
solid shot for the 100-pounder Armstrong guns for
the supply of those vessels carrying that descrip-
tion of ordnance, ships fitting for the steam reserve
are to be supplied with shot in the proportion laid
down in the order previously issued on the subject.
A telegram was received from the Admiralty at
Sheerness on Tuesday night directing the Phaeton,
51 gun screw frigate, Capt. E, Tatham, just com-
missioned, to complete fitting and prepare for sea
with the utmost possible despatch. This fine frigate
is in such a forward state that she will be ready to
sail for the westward to-morrow.
The screw steamer Flying Fish, 6, Commander
W. H. Anderson, has been removed from the har-
bour to the steam basin at Sheerness, for the pur-
pose of having her defects, chiefly in her boilers
and machinery, made good. It is expected that
about a month will elapse before the repairs are
effected. An order was yesterday received from
the Admiralty countermanding the order pre-
viously given for the officers and men of the
Flying Fish to be turned over to the Victor, 6,
screw steamer, and they will accordingly remain
by their vessel while she is under repairs. The
ship's company have accordingly been turned over
to the naval barracks, where they will, for the pre-
sent, be accommodated.
The Swallow, 9, screw steam sloop, fitting at
Sheerness for surveying service, will shortly be out
of the hands of the dockyard authorities, her re-
pairs and alterations having been nearly completed.
Yesterday morning a numerous party of convicts
arrived at the Chatham convict establishment, from
'Wakefield, to be employed
,on the works in connec-
tion with the extension and enlargement of
Chatham dockyard.
The Dragon, 6, paddlewheel steamer, remains at
Sheerness dockyard, where she is undergoing a
thorough overhaul and examination, in order to
enable the authorities connected with the dockyard
to report upon her actual condition. The survey up
to the present time has led to the discovery that
many of her timbers, particularly those adjacent to
her engines and boilers, are very rotten. From the
defects already ascertained to exist some consider-
able time must elapse before she can be put into a
thorough state of repair, if, indeed, the Admiralty
should not deem it more advisable to break her
up, although a comparatively new ship. The
Dragon was actually in commission was time since,
with her crew and all her stores on board, when
• the discovery was accidentally made that she was
unseaworthy. She was immediately docked, the
officers and crew being subsequently turned over to
the Chameleon, 17, screw steamer.
Her Majesty's ship Leander, late 50-gun sailing
vessel, which has recently been lengthened 44 feet
amidships in the Sheerness Dockyard, and since
fitted with machinery by Messrs. Bolton and Watts,
left Sheerness yesterday for Mapling Sands for the
purpose of trying her engines at the measured mile.
The weather was very rough. As the vessel was
commencing her trial at the measured mile one of
the engineers met with a serious accident, which,
after the vessel had made two runs, obliged her to
return to harbour. So far as the trial went, both
ship and machinery answered exceedingly well.
The vessel obtained an average speed of 101 knots:per
hour ; her revolutions being 52. On her return to
the harbour she made 64 revolutions, and worked
in a very admirable manner. It is fully believed
that she will make 11 knots per hour at least,
"which is considered very good for a vessel of only
400 horse Power. She is furnished with new patent
expansion gear, introduced by Messrs. Bolton and
Watts. Her Workingwen, gave every satisfaction. The
stokehole was
oat sanguine
and altogether the
trial realised the
The following appoklatranguine expectations.
outs 'were made yesterday
:—llenry Lefevre Rider, at the Admiralty
man, to the Phaeton ;
Jarrett
Dink, Borg, to the
midship-
Flying Fish ; John Elliott, additie
John S. Adams and William Clarke,
Burg, and
assist.-snrgs., to the Nile, to the Eat
additional
Marines ; John Hasler, assist.-payraarnn c't
to Royal
the
Ajax ; C. R. Rodham, assist-paymaster, to the
Im-
pregnable ; A. H. Miller, chief engineer to the
Phmton ; J. T, Payne, acting engineer, to the
Phaeton ; G. L. Thomson, first-class assist,-engineer,
discharged, to the Indus, as supernumerary;
Nurse, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Phaeton ;
H. H. Small, second-class assist,-engineer, to the
Phaeton ; and A. T. V. Forster, acting second-class
assist.-engineer, to the Phaeton.

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