10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy; notably carried Charles Darwin
"The Beagle" redirects here. For other uses, see Beagle (disambiguation).
For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named HMS Beagle.
HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan at Monte Sarmiento, reproduction of R. T. Pritchett's frontispiece from the 1890 illustrated edition of The Voyage of the Beagle.
History
United Kingdom
Ordered
16 February 1817
Cost
£7,803
Laid down
June 1818
Launched
11 May 1820
Commissioned
1820
Decommissioned
1845, transferred to Coastguard
Fate
Sold and broken up 1870
General characteristics
Class and type
Cherokee-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen
235 bm; 242 for second voyage[1]
Length
90.3 ft (27.5 m)
Beam
24.5 ft (7.5 m)
Draught
12.5 ft (3.8 m)
Sail plan
Brig (barque from 1825)
Complement
120 as a ship-of-war, 65 plus 9 supernumeraries on second voyage
Armament
10 guns, reduced to 6 guns for first survey voyage, changed to 7 guns during second survey voyage
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed at a cost of £7,803, was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. Later reports say the ship took part in celebrations of the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom, passing under the old London Bridge, and was the first rigged man-of-war afloat upriver of the bridge.[2][3] There was no immediate need for Beagle, so she "lay in ordinary", moored afloat but without masts or rigging. She was then adapted as a survey barque and took part in three survey expeditions.
The second voyage of HMS Beagle is notable for carrying the recently graduated naturalist Charles Darwin around the world. While the survey work was carried out, Darwin travelled and researched geology, natural history and ethnology onshore. He gained fame by publishing his diary journal, best known as The Voyage of the Beagle, and his findings played a pivotal role in the formation of his scientific theories on evolution and natural selection.[4][5]
^FitzRoy 1839, pp. 17–18.
^Taylor 2008, pp. 22–24, 36.
^Stokes 1846, p. 3.
^"HMS 'Beagle' (1820–70)". Royal Museums Greenwich. Archived from the original on 1 March 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
^Howitt, William (1865). "Voyages of Captains Wickham, Fitzroy, and Stokes, in the Beagle, round the Australian Coasts, from 1837 to 1843". The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: From the Earliest Date to the Present Day. Vol. 1. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green. p. 332.
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