USE OF AUSTRALIAN COAL IN HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.
(No. 40.)
" Pelorus " at Sydney, 20 June 1862. In continuation of the report respecting the use of Australian coal on board Her Majesty's ships which I had the honour to address to their Lordships on the 16th ultimo (No. 29), I forward a plan of the boilers, furnaces, &c., of the steamer "Wonga Wonga," the property of the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, a vessel which has been constantly running on this coast between Sydney and Melbourne during the last four years, and in which Australian coal has been invariably and advantageously consumed.
I have, &c.
(signed) F. Beauchamp Seymour, The Secretary of the Admiralty,
Commodore. &c. &c. &c.
Memorandum. In November last a set of new boilers to burn Australian coal was ordered to be made for Her Majesty's ship " Falcon," a 100 horse-power sloop.
dated 2 March 1863 ;-for,
An AMENDED RETURN "of all Trials of Coal at Woolwich and PortsMOUTH DOCKYARDS,
between the 1st day of April 1858 and the 31st day of March 1862; specifying the Description of Coal, Evaporative Power, Amount of Ash, Clinker, and Smoke respectively in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 375, of Session 1858)."
Admiralty,
2 March 1863.
REPORT of Trials of Coals at WOOLWICH DOCKYARD, between the 1st of April 1858, and
the 31st March 1862.
RePORT of Trials of Coals at Woolwich Dockyard, between 1 April 1858 and 31 March 1862-continued.
RESULTS of COAL TRIALS from 1st April 1858 to 31st March 1861, at HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARD, FORTSMOUTH.