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The Daily Dispatch: may 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
mate, is to be 280 feet long, nearly 2,600 tons, will draw 20 feet, and will have engines of 500 horse power. She will, according to present arrangements, have six cupolas, each armed with two 100-pounder Armstrong guns. The Times says: The Royal Sovereign, converting to a shield ship from a three decker at Portsmouth, is expected to be placed in dock on Wednesday, next. She has been lightened to 25 feet, draught of water. The Robinson transport commenced shipping three thousand Armstrong shells and other war stores on Saturday, for Malta. Fears are entertained with respect to the safety of the screw steamer Wisbeach, which sailed early in the year, with Government stores, for Canada. On Friday last, eighty five Mormons sailed for Utah via Boston, United States. It was stated at the recent Mormon conference, held at St. George's Hall, Lambeth, that two hundred and fifty persons were on the books ready to leave London this season, and that the numbers were increas