The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-27 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

Commodore the Hon. James R. Drummond, C. 8.,
Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, yesterday
mustered and inspected 140 naval pensioners assem-
bled on board the receiving ship Hebe, and selected
a number of the most ablebodied men as eligible for
seagoing ships ; the remainder to be appointed for
coast guard and harbour service.
The Doris, 32, screw steam frigate, Captain E.
Heathcote, weighed from Spithead on Wednesday
afternoon and proceeded to the trial ground in
Stokes Bay in charge of Capt. G. T. Gordon, com-
manding steam reserve, to make her first trial with
Griffiths 's patent propeller, the trials with the
lAdmiralty screw having been completed—Mr.
Dirmen, Admiralty Inspector, Mr. G. Murdoch,
Inspector of Machinery Afloat, and Mr. Miller, of
the steam factory in Portsmouth yard, having the
superintendence of the trial. The vibration during
this trial was much less than on the former trials
with the Admiralty screw. The following arc the
details of the trial :—Pressure of steam, 211 b. ;
vacuum, 25.5. Revolutions of engines—max., 50.0 ;
mean, 49.83. Diameter of screw, 20 feet ; pitch of
ditto, 32 feet ; force of wind, 2 ; direction, S.W. ;
average speed of six runs at the measured mile, 12
knots. We understand that the next trial with
this screw will be made with a finer pitch, and is
expected to take place this day.
The screw steam frigate Topaze left Plymouth
Sound at 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday, and having
made a trip round the Eddystone, to try her
engines, returned at 4.15 p.m.
The screw steamship Encounter, 14, was un-
docked, and the Sans areal, 70, docked in Keyham
yard, Plymouth, on Wednesday.
The screw steamship Aboukir, 90, was put in
commission at Devonport, on Wednesday after-
noon. -
The screw line-of-battle ship Exmouth, 90, Capt.
J. Stopford, arrived at Portland on Tuesday night
from Plymouth, to join the Channel fleet,
The hired transport Benjamin Boyd, having em-
barked 1,000 barrels of loose powder and 1,400 k
barrels of ammunition from Woolwich Arsenal yes-
terday, left the river for Malta. The Azof, partly
laden with ammunition and war stores (likewise
for Malta), yesterday left Woolwich to complete
lading at Deptford.
The following vessels have been chartered by the
War Department to ship from Woolwich—namely,
the Bristol and the Forget-me-not, for Malta; the
Rattler, for Quebec ; the Copenhagen, for Mel-
bourne; the Caroline Brown, for Gibraltar; the
Elizabeth, for Honduras • the steamship. Brilliant,
for Gibraltar ; and the Evangeline, for Port Natal.
The new screw steam corvette Cadmus, of 21
guns, and 400-horse power (nominal), Capt. Myer,
from Chatham, has completed her coaling from the
depot in Saltpan Reach. She will have her com-
passes adjusted to-day, take in her combustible
munitions of war, and leave immediately to join
the Channel squairon.
The new screw steam frigate Emerald, of 51 guns,
and 600-horse power (nominal), Capt. Arthur Cum-
ming, is receiving some first-rate A.B.'s, some of
whom were on board the Nankin. _

A telegraphic message arrived at Sheerness on
Tuesday afternoon last to prepare the new screw
line•of-battle ship Edgar, of 91 guns, for immediate
active service. A number of artificers and seamen
riggers have since been engaged in completing her
equipments, ready for the pendant.
The lighter Devon, J. Rowell, Master, from Pem-
broke, and the Tortoise, Lotts, Master, from Queens-
town, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday.
Fifty-three shipwrights were entered at Devon-
port dockyard on Wednesday.
Large draugnts of A.B.'s, ordinary seamen, and
landsmen are daily arriving at Sheerness from Lon-
don and the eastern and southern ports.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Capt. Charles F. Schomberg to
the Aboukir, commissioned ; George Giles, Master,
to the Edgar ; W. H. Crane, Master, to the Blen-
heim ; George S. Webster, Second Master, to the
Cadmus ; J. P. M'Ewen and H. K. Geary, Master's-
assist., to the Brisk ; H. E. Wood, W. King, and
T. T. Morris, Master's-assist., to the Dasher ; Wm.
Price, Paymaster, additional, to the Aboukir; H.
C. Davy, Paymaster, additional, to the Edgar ; C.
W. Harris, Paymaster, to the St. Vincent; Wm.
Lovely, clerk to the Edgar; Alex. C. Young, clerk
to the Aboukir; Thos. Forder, assist.-clerk to the
Hawke ; Alen H. Grey, assist.-clerk to the Edgar ;
Win. B. Jennis, assist•-clerk to the Cornwallis ;
Andrew C. Jeffreys, assist.-clerk to the Aboukir
Henry A. Scrivener, assist.-clerk to the Formidable ;
E. E. Richmond, assist.-clerk to the Cadmus ; and
Ed. M. Ommanney, assist.-clerk to the London.