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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 29 May 1862, Page 5 (Supplement)

Tun Wakuiou. —On her trip from Queenstown to Falmouth, in company of the Revenge, the "Warrior made 1G 3 knots under steam, and the Revenge eleven knots. In sailing the ship has considerable advantage over the frigate. The former . also wears in seven minutes, while the latter in , consequence of her great length, and the insufficient supply of canvass forward, requires, nineteen minutes. Ro severe storm was experienced but the weather was sufficiently heavy to test the Warrior’s rolling which attained a mean of 16 deg., against 14 deg., by the Revenge, The guns of the ship have a range of 45 deg., those-in the frigate 22. In firing broadsides the Revenge “ heels over the Warrior only “shakes a little.” Her ventilating machinery, worked by one boiler, soon clears the space between decks from smoke ; it also keeps the stokehole well supplied with fresh air, and will contribute largely to the healthful condition of the ship, liv respect to ventilation, the stokehole of the Revenge is, by comparison, very difficieut. The Warrior requires a powerful : gang of men to steer her. It is stated that there . is too much elasticity in the tiller ropes, which are . necessarily very long. On the 11th December, at noon the ship being under canvass, Scilly lighthouse was sighted. Ilere three blank broadsideswere discharged ; in the afternoon the guns were. - shotted and fired. It appears that more head sail; is necessary ; an additional mast forward is sugr. gested, or-that the foremast and mainmast should, 1 be stepped near the bow. The ship is too- much,inclined tocome up in the wind.”— Liverpool' Albion. A young dandy, who sported enormous moustaches, asked a lady what she thought of his looks. “Why,” said she, “you look as if you had swallowed a squirrel, and left the tail sticking out of your mouth,”