The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-10 00:00:00

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The following are the chief dimensions of the
screw liner Defiance, recently launched at Penn.
broke :—Length between perpendiculars, 254 ft. 9
in. ; length of keel for tonnage, 219 ft: lltin.;
breadth, extreme, 55ft. 4in.; breadth for tonnage,
54ft. Gin. ; breadth moulded, 53ft. Bin. ; depth of
hold, 24ft. 6iv. ; burden in tons, 3,4751, and nomi.`
nal power of engines, 800 horses.

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The screw troopship Adventure, Commander E.
Lacy, was officially inspected at Portsmouth yester-
day by the authorities and reported upon very fa-
vourably. She will be paid off this morning into
the first division of the steam reserve. The whole
of the machinery and boilers will have to be taken-
out owing to their defective state. She came home
from China working two cylinders, and during the
past three years her machinery has been in such a
condition that it required the unceasing exertions
of her engineers to keep her available for service.
The Tyrian quarantine brig, having completed
her repairs below the water-line in No. 1 dock at
Portsmouth, has been undocked and placed in the
old ship basin.
The Surly gunboat, 60-horse power, tender to the
Cornwallis, Lieut. H. C. Onslow, having taken in
coal, has left Sheerness to resume her duties in the
Humber.

The Undaunted, 51, screw steam frigate, 600-
horse power, which recently arrived at Sheerness
from Woolwich, has been taken into the fitting
basin to be coppered and prepared for the third-
class steam reserve.

The Newcastle, 51, screw steam frigate, which
was recently launched at Woolwich, made her offi-
cial trip at Sheerness yesterday. The frigate left
the steam basin at 9 a.m., in charge of Captain
Schomberg, commanding the steam reserve at the
port, and steamed out of the harbour for the trial
ground, off Mapling Sands. Mr. Price, inspector of
machinery afloat at Sheerness, and Mr. Townsend,
foreman of the engineering department at Sheerness
Dockyard, were on board and superintended the
trial on the part of the Government. The contrac-
tors (Messrs. Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co.) were re-
presented by Messrs. Ravenhill and Hodgson. The
Newcastle is of 600 nominal horse power. Her en-
gines worked beautifully, and showed very little
variation in their revolutions. Her steering qualities
were very good. She made six runs at the measured
mile, the vessel drawing l9ft. 10in. of water aft,
and 15ft. 7in. forward (Griffith's screw, pitch 27,
diameter 28). The average of the six runs gave a
speed of 13.266 knots per hour. Revolution of en-
gines, 60; pressure of steam, 20; vacuum, 25. There
was a total absence of hot bearings, and the ma-
chinery worked very satisfactorily.
The screw steamship Cressy, 80, Capt. T. Harvey,
which arrived from Gibraltar at Plymouth on Wed-
nesday, as already reported in The Sun, transferred
yesterday morning about 70 invalids belonging to
the Mediterranean fleet, and the crew of the broken-
up gunboat Quail, into the steamtug Confiance,
which conveyed the former to the Royal Naval
Hospital, and the latter to the flagship Impregnable
in Hamoaze. After receiving about 150 tons of coal
the Cressy was appointed to leave the Sound yester-
day afternoon for Sheerness.

The trial of the screw steam sloop Pantaloon, 11
outside Plymouth Breakwater, on Wednesday was
in relation to the engines, perfectly satisfactory,
but the wind from the northward and eastward was
blowing so hard that it will become necessary for
her to make a second trial, which may take place
nest week.