The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-28 00:00:00

The Marlborough, 131, screw, Captain W. H.
Stewart, C. 8., was yesterday moved from her berth
alongside the shear jetty of Portsmouth dockyard,
and placed in the steam basin, where her repairs
will be carried on until she goes in dock. When
she is placed in dock for a thorough survey
a better judgment can be formed of her actual
condition as regards her hull. Her copper sheathing
is entirely covered with long tuft grass, weeds, and
barnacles. Her masts have been landed, and are
being surveyed. They were originally made for
the Royal Frederick, but were turned overlto the
Marlborough. They do not seem to be in so bad a
condition as has been reported.
The Glocester, 50, is in the hands of shipwrights
at Chatham, fitting for harbour service at that port
in the room of the Hussar, receiving hulk, which
has been converted into a target ship to be experi-
mented upon with the Whitworth and Armstrong
guns at Shoeburyness.
The Orpheus, 22, screw corvette, 400-horse power,
fitting at Chatham for the steam ordinary, is ordered
to be attached to the second-class steam reserve,
under the command of Captain C. F. Schoenberg.
The Rattlesnake, 22, screw corvette, building on
the first slip at Chatham, is so far advanced that
her launching ways have been placed under her,
preparatory to her being reported for launching.
She has a considerable number of shipwrights and
caulkers employed on her, in order that she may be
brought forward for launching with all despatch.
The line-of-battle ship Bombay, 90, and the Are-
thusa, 51, in dock at Chatham, converting from sail-
ing ships to screw steamers, are to have the portion
of their hulls below the water mark covered with
Muntz's patent metal, which is to be used for those
vessels instead of copper sheathing. Upwards of
100 cases of the new metal have arrived at the
dockyard from London, and have been taken into
store. The Bombay and Arethusa will, when com-
plete in their alterations and fitted with their ma-
chinery, be attached to the second division of the
steam reserve at Chatham.
The Rochester, Admiralty transport, Mr. Dyer,
master commander, unshippedyesterday at Chatham
dockyard one of Trotman's patent anchors, together
with a large quantity of chain cable belonging to
her Majesty's steam yacht Osborne, which that
vessel lost in the Downs during the late severe
weather. The anchor and cable were recovered by
the Deal boatmen, who will be awarded salvage by
the Admiralty. The anchor and cable of the Ad-
miralty transport Duck, also lost in the Downs,
was recovered at the same time, and landed at
Chatham yesterday.
Yesterday one of the new patent portable steam
lifts, complete, was shipped from Chatham dock-
yard on board the Isis, 44, Capt. F. L. Barnard,
for conveyance to Ascension, for use at that island.
Some complete sets of diving apparatus have also
been received at the dockyard to be put on board
the Isis, and landed at Ascension. The steam lift
is to be fixed on the deck of the vessel, where a
temporary covering has been made for it.
The Aid naval transport, Mr. Grundy master
commanding, has hauled alongside the dockyard at
Chatham, and commenced landing her stores,
brought from the Western port. As soon as she
has discharged her cargo she will have the defects
made good which she sustained during the late
gales, the full fury of which she encountered in the
Channel.
The Dart, 5, screw despatch vessel, at Chatham,
is ready for being commissioned.
The launch of the Glasgow, 51-gun frigate, will
take place at Portsmouth shortly before noon to-
day. The ceremony of christening the vessel is
expected to be performed by Mrs. Alexander, the
daughter of the ?Admiral Commanding-in-Chief.
The Glasgow was laid down the same month the
Shannon was launched, and on the same slipway.
The frigate to be launched to-day is, however, a
much finer frigate than the Shannon, being 15 feet
longer than that vessel, and carrying a much finer
bow and run. The following are her principal
dimensions :—Length between perpendiculars, 250
feet 1 inch ; length of keel for tonnage, 214 feet 7.-Z
inches ; breadth, extreme, 52 feet 1 inch ; breadth
for tonnage, 51 feet 7 inches ; breadth moulded,
50 feet 9 inches ; depth in hold (to
throats of floors), 19 feet 2 inches ; bur-
den in tons, 3,027 49-94. Immediately on
being launched she will be taken hold of
by tug steamers, and conveyed round to the steam
basin, to be docked, coppered, and fitted with
her machinery.
The construction of the Royal Alfred, 91, screw
liner, in No. 5 building-shed of Portsmouth dock-
yard, is being rapidly proceeded with. The Victoria
and Marlborough, three deckers, were both con-
structed under this shed.
The Osborne paddle-yacht, Master-Commander
G. K. Bower, steamed out of Portsmouth harbour
yesterday and tested her machinery. At the con-
clusion she returned to moorings in the harbour to
adjust her compasses.
The Sjvelland, 38, Danish screw frigate, Captain
Ipsen, filled up coal at Spithead yesterday, and was
expected to sail for Copenhagen at daylight this
morning. The weather yesterday evening was
thick, with the wind at S.E., and rain.
The Octavia, 51-gun frigate, is nearly complete
in her coppering in No. 9 dock at Portsmouth, where
she has been converted from a sailing frigate to a
screw. When complete she will be floated out of
dock and placed in the steam basin for fitment of
machinery, &c.

The Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent gun-
nery ship, at Portsmouth, practised with her 8-inch
guns outside the Warner yesterday.
The Cockatrice, 4, screw gunboat, Lieut.-Com-
mander It. M. Gillson , was swung yesterday in Ports-
mouth harbour for the adjustment of her compasses.
The Icarus, 11, screw, Commander N. Salmon,
V.C., will be removed from the ship basin at Ports-
mouth, and placed in No. 1 dock, on the removal of
Leveret gunboat.

Commander F. D. Lanzur. died at his residence,
Trafalgar-house, Stoke, Plymouth, on the 24th inst.
The deceased was at the battle of Trafalgar, where
he acted as Aide to the Earl of Northesk, and he
was in the Norge, 74, Captain Ranier, when she

assisted at the embarkation of Sir John Moore's

army at Corunna.
The steam-sloop Buzzard, 6, recently returned
from South America, having been inspected by
Capt. Jerningham, went on Tuesday from Plymouth

Sound into liamosze, where she will be dismantled

and then paced in the third division of the steam

reserve.

The screw steam corvette Jason, 21, at Plymouth,
is to be stored and provisioned for service abroad.
The screw steamship Princess Royal, 91, Capt.
C. Fellowes, flag of Rear-Admiral Robert Smart,
K.H., in dock at Keyham, was stored up aft on
_ _

Tuesday. There is a serious defect in the shaft for
the reception of her screw, which is said to be an
inch out of a straight line. It is here that she leaks

so much.

The screw steam gunboats Porpoise, Hyena, and
Nightingale were removed yesterday morning from
No. 1 dock in Keyham steam yard to the basin,
where steam was got up on board the Porpoise and
Hyena for the purpose of trying their machinery.
The screw screw steamship Albion, at Devonport, is
alm
ready for coppering—the artisans of the
yard are very busy in bringing her forward.
The followiday at the Admiralty ng
appointments were made yester-
day
;na iralty :—Lieut. T. H. B. Fellowes,
to the Merge Joshua C. Robinson, chief engineer,
to the Indus
charge of the machinery of the
'Phcebe ; Ch for
li
Charles
Barber,
chief engineer, to
AtheiaiN,lfpojrescthica;rg 13e.
of the" chief engineer, to the
of the Tribune ;
T. L. Walker, chief engineer, rt'ottohthe Hogue ; Innies
Parker, acting assist. surg.,
; Edward F.
Isis
Miles, assist. surg., to the Proc:'s
;j.
E.
Barber,
master's assist., to the Princess' Royal.
aFlward R.
Connor, master's assist., to the c 0,;,.
Dearsley, mister's assist., to the Aboukir ;'N• IVL. M.
H
Stephens, master's assist., to the Jason; Frederick.
Hire, master's assist., to the Impregnable, for the
_NautilusTW. H. Fox, master's assist., to thel7a:
pregnable ; J. W. Gorman, master's assist., to the
Sanspareil ; H. C. Trenaayne, M. Merrett, and P.
H. Whitelock, masters' assists., to the Arrogant, as
supernumeraries; C. H. S. Douglas, master's assist.,
to the Victory, for the Rolla; T. G. Fenn, master's