Pringle Stokes was a British naval officer who served in HMS Owen Glendower on a voyage around Cape Horn to the Pacific coast of South America, and on the West African coast fighting the African slave trade.
15 Facts About Pringle Stokes
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Pringle Stokes then commanded HMS Beagle on its first voyage of exploration in the south Atlantic.
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Robert FitzRoy, who was to take command of the Beagle after Pringle Stokes died, served on the Owen Glendower on this voyage.
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Pringle Stokes had joined the ship as a college volunteer in 1819, aged fourteen.
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The young FitzRoy and Pringle Stokes, who was in his late twenties, would have become acquainted on the two-year voyage.
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In one incident Pringle Stokes was wounded in a clash between the boat crews of the Owen Glendower and the local people of Fernando Po.
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In 1824 Pringle Stokes was involved in a dispute over the Spanish slaving schooner Fabiana, which had been captured by the ship's boats under Lieutenant Gray on the Bonny River ten days after Sir Robert Mends died.
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Pringle Stokes was a relatively small ship of 235 tons, barque-rigged.
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Pringle Stokes entered the Santa Cruz River and recorded the Isla Pavon, about 54 kilometres from the river's mouth.
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Pringle Stokes was objective in the way in which he described the Fuegians whom he first met in 1827, unusually for a European of his time.
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Pringle Stokes blamed their primitive condition on the rigors of the climate.
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The bullet remained within his skull, but Pringle Stokes remained conscious and coherent.
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Gangrene set in, and Pringle Stokes finally died on 12 August 1828.
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Pringle Stokes was buried at the "English Cemetery", two miles from Port Famine.
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Pringle Stokes's gravestone is displayed in the Museo Salesiano in Punta Arenas, about 40 miles distant.