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Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beagle, after a dog breed. The most notable of these ships is the second HMS Beagle, 1820–1870, which transported Charles Darwin around the world in the voyage of Beagle.

  • HMS Beagle (1804), a Cruizer-class brig-sloop in service from 1804 to 1814.
  • HMS Beagle, a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched in 1820 and converted to a survey ship in 1825. After her famous voyage with Charles Darwin, she became a customs watch vessel in 1846, and was sold in 1870.
  • HMS Beagle (1854), an Arrow-class wooden-hulled screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1863, eventually becoming the Japanese vessel Kanko
  • HMS Beagle (1872), a 1-gun schooner serving in Sydney from 1872 to 1883.
  • HMS Beagle (1889), a Beagle-class steel screw sloop, the lead ship of a class of two, in service from 1889 to 1905.
  • HMS Beagle (1909), a Beagle-class destroyer, the lead ship of her class, launched in 1909 and sold in 1921.
  • HMS Beagle (H30), a B-class destroyer launched in 1930 and broken up in 1946.
  • HMS Beagle (A319), a Bulldog-class hydrographic survey ship launched in 1967 and sold in 2002.

Also, in 1766, the Bombay Marine, which was the British East India Company's navy, had a gallivat named Beagle that was armed with eight 3-pounder guns.

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List of ships named HMS Beagle

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Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beagle, after a dog breed. The most notable of these ships is the second HMS Beagle, 1820–1870, which...

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HMS Beagle

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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...

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Beagle Channel

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site of the Bahia Wulaia Dome Middens. The channel was named after the ship HMS Beagle during its first hydrographic survey of the coasts of the southern...

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List of chronometers on HMS Beagle

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of radio for time signals – the time signal was used to set the chronometer, but the instrument was still necessary to display the time. HMS Beagle was...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

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expedition of the ship HMS Beagle. Due to the popularity of Darwin's account, the publisher reissued it later in 1839 as Darwin's Journal of Researches...

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HMS Nautilus

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Beagle 2

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two of its four solar panels failed to deploy, blocking the spacecraft's communications antenna. The Beagle 2 is named after HMS Beagle, the ship that...

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Robert FitzRoy

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April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous...

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Yokcushlu

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HMS Wolverine

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HMS Bulldog

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HMS Scorpion

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Beagle

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HMS Grasshopper

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one shore station of the Royal Navy were named HMS Grasshopper, named for the grasshopper, a common type of herbivorous insect. HMS Grasshopper (1776)...

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HMS Grampus

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HMS Pincher

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The Voyage of the Space Beagle

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HMS Basilisk

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HMS Savage

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Strait of Magellan

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accumulation of fossil bones not far from the strait. These remains apparently belonged to a more ancient period than collections made by Darwin on HMS Beagle and...

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