Changes at the Yard

Birbeck's monitor, Tecumseh, was put in commission yesterday afternoon. She was built in Jersey City by Secor & Co., under the superintendence of George Birbeck, Jr., is represented to be one of the finest specimens of iron-clads in the country. The following is a list of her officers:

Commander T. Aug. Craven, Lieutenant J. W. Kelly, Surgeon H. A. Danker, Paymaster Geo. Work, Master C. F. Langley, Ensigns Geo. Cottrell, F. H. d'Estemanville, Chief Engineer John Farron, First Assistants C. W. Pennington, W. L. Pennell, Third Assistants F. Scott, W. D. Ray.

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