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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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    The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander...
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    passion for natural science. However, it was his five-year voyage on HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 that truly established Darwin as an eminent geologist...
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    three times to the Beagle Channel, where he created paintings on board a sailing yacht. HMS Beagle at Ponsonby Sound in the Beagle Channel, by the ship's...
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    was the first lieutenant (and later captain) of HMS Beagle under Fitzroy during the voyage of the Beagle in 1835. Wickham actually brought three tortoises...
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    Victoria looming over HMS Beagle's replica construction site Starboard side view of HMS Beagle's replica State of HMS Beagle's replica building process...
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    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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    Remarks covers Darwin's part in the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle. Due to the popularity of Darwin's account, the publisher reissued it...
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    Robert FitzRoy (category HMS Beagle)
    Zealand between 1843 to 1845. 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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    FitzRoy in HMS Beagle and became a celebrity there for a period. In 1830, Captain Robert FitzRoy, at the command of the first expedition of HMS Beagle, took...
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  • 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...
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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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    HMS Beagle was a Bulldog class coastal survey vessel of the Royal Navy and was the ninth to bear the name. She was originally to have been called HMS...
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    Yokcushlu (category HMS Beagle)
    hostage by the crew of the British vessel HMS Beagle and renamed "Fuegia Basket". Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle, initially intended to trade her for...
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    expedition named Cape Horn at Hornos Island. On his first voyage with HMS Beagle in 1830, Robert FitzRoy picked up four native Fuegians, including "Jemmy...
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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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  • Peter S. Beagle (born 1939), American fantasy writer List of ships named HMS Beagle HMS Beagle, the ship that took Darwin on his voyage Beagle: In Darwin's...
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  • of the Beagle typically refers to the second voyage of HMS Beagle, after which Darwin published his theories on evolution. "Voyage of the Beagle" may also...
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    HMS Beagle was a B-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy (RN) around 1930. Initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, she was transferred to the...
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  • a British expedition departed under captain Robert FitzRoy, on board HMS Beagle, with the main purpose of making a hydrographic survey of the coasts of...
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    previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles...
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    the islands more than a million years ago. During the survey voyage of HMS Beagle, Darwin was unaware of the significance of the birds of the Galápagos...
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    chiefly responsible for exploring and mapping the area. Darwin's voyage on HMS Beagle was part of an extensive British survey of the coasts of South America...
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    antenna. The Beagle 2 is named after HMS Beagle, the ship that took the naturalist Charles Darwin on his round-the-world voyage. Beagle 2 was conceived...
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  • Jenyns was the original choice for the naturalist on the second voyage of HMS Beagle but turned down the offer due to ill health and parish duties. His diary...
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  • Australia. Beagle Bay was named in 1838 by John Clements Wickham, captain of HMS Beagle The community is situated adjacent to the Indian Ocean. Beagle Bay is...
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    August 1811 – 11 June 1885) was a Royal Navy officer who served onboard HMS Beagle for almost eighteen years. Born on 1 August 1811, son of Henry Stokes...
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    study there. He at first refused to let his son join the survey voyage of HMS Beagle, but was persuaded otherwise. Robert Darwin provided the first empirical...
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  • reference to The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin's book about his five-year voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. The book was republished in 1952...
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    Programme. The putative Beagle 3 would be named after the ship HMS Beagle that took Charles Darwin around the world. After the Beagle 3 project was rejected...
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