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and from the West Indies without occasioning any delay, and would always have been ready, at 

 short notice, to have been detached to the distance of at least 3000 miles, and have 

 required only an hour and a half's preparation, to render her powerful assistance on the day 

 of battle. 



On the 28th of May the Medea went into the Piraeus, received the King of Greece on board, 

 and conveyed him to the French, Russian, and English squadrons, then at anchor in the 

 Gulf of Salamis, returned with his Majesty to the Piraeus, and again rejoined the admiral, 

 with whom and the rest of the ships she proceeded on the 6th of June to Naussa, in the island 

 of Paros, and on this occasion beat most of the squadron. 



After cruizing for about a month in the Archipelago and visiting many of the islands, the 

 steamer was detached on the 1st of July to Zante, with despatches. When the signal was made 

 to the Medea, at 5h. 30m. P.M., " prepare to steam," she was carrying a press of sail going eight 

 knots. The fires were lighted, and the ship still kept on her course until 6h. 55m., when she 

 was hove-to, the wheels connected in 17 minutes, and the engine " put on" at full power. 

 Here, then, is an instance fully corroborating what we have before said of this war steamer's 

 ability to keep company under sail with a fleet proceeding to distant service, and of the short 

 notice required to make her steaming qualities available. We find the weather stated as 

 " fresh winds and squally; " therefore, as the situation of the ship was such that she had no 

 shelter from the land, she was exposed to the full force of the waves, which a wind 

 that would drive the whole squadron, as well as herself, eight knots an hour, must occasion ; 

 proving that the shaft could in the worst of weather always be connected with the 

 machinery in far less time than would be required to " get the steam up :" as we find in the 

 foregoing case, the course was continued under sail for 1 hour and 25 minutes after lighting 

 the fires, and they were only hove-to for 17 minutes. 



After leaving Zante, the Medea, under sail, rejoined the admiral on the 7th of July, at the 

 gulf of Kalamata in the Morea, and started for Malta on the following day with the fleet in 

 company. On the 10th of July the wind being very light, this vessel, still without steam, beat 

 the whole squadron in an extraordinary degree, which (to use the words of the log-book) 

 " is accounted for by the Medea not feeling the short ' swell' in the same proportion of dis- 

 advantage as the shorter and heavier vessels." We are, however, inclined to attribute this 

 success in some degree to her being without her usual full quantity of coals, as the resistance 

 which the paddles afforded in light winds must greatly have impeded her progress. Still the 

 fact is most extraordinary ; and as she had upwards of 200 tons of coal on board, it cannot be 

 said that her efficiency as a steamer was in any considerable degree impaired by her being 

 thus rendered more perfect as a sailing vessel. 



We next find the Medea visiting the Ionian Islands, and cruizing for nearly two months 

 under sail with the fleet in the neighbouring seas and on the coast of the Morea : in all the 

 various evolutions incidental thereto, she acquitted herself well. 



On the 10th of October the squadron proceeded on their return to Malta, and encountered 

 during a considerable part of the passage from Cephalonia strong contrary winds. The 

 first day the steamer under canvass " fore-reached " and " weathered " so much upon the 

 whole of the ships, that towards the evening it was judged necessary to shorten sail in order 

 to keep company with the Admiral. Still, however, the means that were thus taken to ensure 



