The New York herald., 1863-11-07
T III f N A v Y.

PxSonscor. uns-The gunboat Penobscot sailed
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard Thursday for New
Orleans
Tho following Is a list Of her oalcers:-
Lieutenant Commdnder-A. +. x. Benham.
Acting Aaster and Executive O6gcn-Charles E. Jack.
Acting Assistant Sur0eon-F. q. Sargent.
Acting Assiadn Pdymdaer-Frank IInman.
Ensigns-Henry D. Edwards, Frederick W. Hearn, j. B.
Fairchd. W. G. Campbell.
Enaineers-Actug First Assistant Chief, VIM; n:
Mconns so0TH Third xssstsnts Warren Ho~:nd JosanS
+. Plant.
Paunaaer's Clerk-James Il. Garrigan.
PA1xAsrKRs.-paymaster Thomas H. Locker has 70.
leved Paymaster Hamberton as superintendent &C., at
Baltimore, and will also have charge OF the psymasers
department OF the receiving ship Allegheny.
BxSvnLx-T gunboat has loft the Navy Yard, and
como 10 this city for repairs 10 her machinery.
PKxBNA, 5-The gunboat Pembina went into commits.
sion Thursday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The fol-
lowing Is . list Of her ofnccrs:-
Lieutenant Commdndey-L II. Newman.
Acting Assistant Surgeon-A. II. Holmes
Acting Assisdnt PdyndaeY-walter Fuller.
Acting Adaers-B. Allen, J. w. Saunders.
Acting Ensi0ns-B. N. Chester W. Lyddon.
Acting Matters Mates-O Sandstrom, II. T. Davis.
Engineers-Second Assistants, T. A. Stephens, A. v.
Frazer Third Assistants, T. Bingham, n. Hodgson,
TuLIAaoxA.-Ths new gunbeat Tullahoma may possibly
be launched week but II ID feared that she will have
to lie until the spring tides.
EnA.-The tugboat Emma sailed for Fortress Monroe
on Wednesday.
wNSxBAGo-Ths peculiarly constructed vessel left g.
Louis the 10th instant under the command Of Chief
Engineer King, United States Navy, superintendent OF
iron cads In the West She operated sevcntytwo
consecutive hoursthe engines making sixtys rsyo.
lutous per minute and the propcers hundred and
twelve revolutions with this speed OF the vessel
sailed nine miles hour In smooth water This vessel is
the FIRST Of four sister propcers launched, and con.
siderable anxiety was therefore manifested In
the result II Ii gratifying 10 know that everything
worked satisfactorily. Tho vessel Ia OF iron, two hun.
drsd and twenty foe, long. nftysix fee. vids and
seven feet deep. She has two fore and AFT bulk.
tish,.i She has two turrets one Ericsson and the
other Fades patent the latter being Of peculiar con.
structon model Of this curious turret was exhib-
tied to the Russian officers recently the Metropolitan
Hotel In this city There can be no mproprety In say.
ing thai this turrcs differs from Ercssous among other
things, In having portion Of the she'll extended down to-
and the whole weight Of the srret resting on spheres at
tho bottom Of tho vessel The guns arc placed on huge
PLATFORM loaded 10 the hold and raised into the ,urrc, by
steam power. They also ou, by steam the rccon
ia received steam cylinders, and the whole apparatus
guns and ALL are operated BY Ian engnser) no
other person being needed . the tarret The loading
accomplished by leaders below the turret In the hold
This turrct will be completed n about six weeks,
when II will DO testsd, and n found successful, will
entirely revoa.onss the old system Of working heavy
odpapee, and The engineer viii be the ordnance oeer
NOTICE TO sRAugv.
USrrD STATES NAVAL RySprxvocs.
NO cBxsRy srnxKr, Ngw:YoRx, Nov. 4, 1888.
fou VIII render service bv mentioning that hercstsr