HMS Beagle was a wooden-hulled Arrow-class second-class screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1863. She was the third vessel of the Royal Navy to...
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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)...
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The beagle is a breed of small scent hound, similar in appearance to the much larger foxhound. The beagle was developed primarily for hunting hare, known...
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launched in 1879 and sold in 1905. HMS Pincher (1910) was a Beagle-class destroyer launched in 1910 and wrecked in 1918. HMS Pincher (J294) was an Algerine-class...
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration (section 1825–1830: HMS Adventure and HMS Beagle)
of H.M.S. Beagle. (five volumes, 1838–1843), R. FitzRoy (editor), Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between...
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Syms Covington (section Beagle voyage)
Syms Covington (1816–1861) was a fiddler and cabin boy on HMS Beagle who became an assistant to Charles Darwin and was appointed as his personal servant...
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Robert FitzRoy (category HMS Beagle)
Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to...
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The fourth HMS Bulldog (1872) was a third-class gunboat of the Ant class, sold for scrapping in 1906. The fifth HMS Bulldog (1909) was a Beagle-class destroyer...
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1801 – 21 August 1878) was an English-born landscape painter active on HMS Beagle from 1833 to 1834. He arrived in Australia in 1835 and painted there until...
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Charles Darwin (section Survey voyage on HMS Beagle)
1831 encouraged his passion for natural science. His five-year voyage on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 established Darwin as an eminent geologist, whose observations...
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made by Thomas Earnshaw (1749–1828), and once part of the equipment of HMS Beagle, the ship that carried Charles Darwin on his voyage around the world,...
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chronometer, but the instrument was still necessary to display the time. HMS Beagle was an Admiralty survey ship sent on three major expeditions. The first...
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exploration and surveys. The best known of the class was HMS Beagle, then considerably modified for Beagle's second survey voyage under Robert FitzRoy, with the...
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expeditions to the Arctic and a survey of the coastline of Australia aboard HMS Beagle. In 1845 he served under Sir John Franklin as First Lieutenant (the third...
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under the command of Captain Phillip King. The ship was accompanied by HMS Beagle, a slightly smaller vessel (90.3 ft in length), who was on her first of...
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Another early installation was in HMS Beagle (1854) (and possibly the other 5 Arrow-class gunvessels). The Beagle had a single screw propeller driven...
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Holbrook HMS B11 1914 First World War Dardanelles, Turkey William Hewett HMS Beagle 1854 Crimean War Siege of Sevastopol, Crimea Joseph Trewavas HMS Beagle 1855...
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Station. Winfield (2004) p.277 "HMS Basilisk at Battleships-Cruisers website". Retrieved 31 August 2008. "HMS Beagle at Naval Database website". Retrieved...
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during the Crimean War (also known as the Russian War) that lasted from 1854 to 1856. The Victoria Cross is a military decoration awarded for valour "in...
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BY CAPT. R. FITZROY AND C. DARWIN, ESQ. OF H.M.S. 'Beagle.' 1838–1843: Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle: published between 1839 and 1843 in five Parts...
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HMS Beagle was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1804, during the Napoleonic Wars. She played a major role in the...
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people by the time Bishop Nixon came to visit in 1854. In 1842 the island was formally charted by HMS Beagle and renamed from Gun Carriage Island to Vansittart...
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served as a midshipman in the Second Anglo-Burmese War. In 1854, while acting mate of HMS Beagle, he was attached to the Naval Brigade during the Siege of...
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his father on the ship HMS Adventure surveying the coast of South America. In December 1831, he sailed as midshipman on HMS Beagle where he befriended Charles...
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presented his mammal and bird specimens collected during the second voyage of HMS Beagle to the Zoological Society of London on 4 January 1837, the bird specimens...
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supported the arrangements for publication of Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, but then was very slow to make progress on the work, and though the...
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Arnold fled to British lines, borne down the Hudson River aboard Vulture. HMS Beagle, a Cherokee-class brig-sloop re-rigged as a three-masted barque, is famous...
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second-class gunvessels in 1856. Arrow (1854) Beagle (1854) Lynx (1854) Snake (1854) Viper (1854) Wrangler (1854) Vigilant class Coquette (1855) Wanderer (1855)...
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Brisbane returned and presented his papers to Captain Robert FitzRoy of HMS Beagle, which coincidentally happened to be in harbour at the time. Fitzroy encouraged...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
the war, Chile was in negotiations with Argentina for control over the Beagle Channel and feared Argentina would use similar tactics to secure the channel...
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