HMS Beagle
1820 Cherokee-class brig-sloop / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class ship of the Royal Navy. It was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames. It is best known for a voyage that carried Charles Darwin.[2]
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HMS Beagle in the Straits of Magellan at Monte Sarmiento, reproduction of R. T. Pritchett's frontispiece from the 1890 illustrated edition of The Voyage of the Beagle. | |
History | |
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Ordered | 16 February 1817 |
Cost | £7,803 |
Laid down | June 1818 |
Launched | 11 May 1820 |
Commissioned | 1820 |
Decommissioned | 1845, transferred to Coastguard |
Fate | Sold and broken up 1870 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Cherokee-class brig-sloop |
Tons burthen | 235 bm; 242 for second voyage[1] |
Length | 90.3 ft (27.5 m) |
Beam | 24.5 ft (7.5 m) |
Draught | 12.5 ft (3.8 m) |
Sail plan | Brig (barque from 1825) |
Complement | 120 as a ship-of-war, 65 plus 9 supernumeraries on second voyage |
Armament | 10 guns, reduced to 6 guns for first survey voyage, changed to 7 guns during second survey voyage |
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