15 Facts About HMS Beagle

HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class.

HMS Beagle was then adapted as a survey barque and took part in three survey expeditions.

Second voyage of HMS Beagle is notable for carrying the recently graduated naturalist Charles Darwin around the world.

HMS Beagle 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.

On 27 September 1825 The HMS Beagle docked at Woolwich to be repaired and fitted out for her new duties.

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HMS Beagle's guns were reduced from ten cannon to six and a mizzen mast was added to improve her handling, thereby changing her from a brig to a bark.

HMS Beagle set sail from Plymouth on 22 May 1826 on her first voyage, under the command of Captain Stokes.

On 3 March 1827 in the Barbara Channel, the HMS Beagle encountered a boat with survivors of the sealer Prince of Saxe Coburg, which had wrecked in Cockburn Channel on 16 December 1826.

When HMS Beagle arrived, Otway put the ship under the command of his aide, Flag Lieutenant Robert FitzRoy.

FitzRoy was re-appointed as commander on 27 June 1831 and HMS Beagle was commissioned on 4 July 1831 under his command, with Lieutenants John Clements Wickham and Bartholomew James Sulivan.

HMS Beagle was immediately taken into dock at Devonport for extensive rebuilding and refitting.

HMS Beagle was scheduled to leave on 24 October 1831, but because of delays in her preparations the departure was delayed until December.

In 1845, HMS Beagle was refitted as a static coastguard watch vessel like many similar watch ships stationed in rivers and harbours throughout the nation.

HMS Beagle was transferred to HM Customs and Excise to control smuggling on the Essex coast in the navigable waterways beyond the north bank of the Thames Estuary.

HMS Beagle was moored mid-river in the River Roach which forms part of an extensive maze of waterways and marshes known as The River Crouch and River Roach Tidal River System, located around and to the south and west of Burnham-on-Crouch.