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344 I found the ship too deep to be agreeable, having immersed her copper; and having previously obtained the permission of the Admiralty, I disposed of the Victoria to Mr. Forbes, for £100. This was one of the two vessels constructed in 1830, under my superintendence, for the African survey; and the same which, under my present first Lieutenant (Monypenny,) in 1833, by mistaking my orders, made her passage from Gibraltar to England. Having done her duty well during ten years, connected with several of our establishments, we parted with her with mixed feelings; one of satisfaction — that of being relieved from her weight; but the other of regret, arising from the loss of an old aid and pet, and the certainty that she never could be kept as she had been under the pendant.