 235-ton 90’4’'' in length and a breadth of 24’6’’
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee class 10-gun brig of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 11/05/1820 at Royal Dockyard Woolwich on the River Thames, at a cost of £7,803. In July of that year she took part in a fleet review celebrating the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom in which she was the first ship to sail under the new London Bridge. After that she was kept in reserve for five years and "lay in ordinary", moored afloat but unmanned. She was then adapted as a survey barque and took part in three expeditions. On the second survey voyage the young naturalist Charles Darwin was on board, and his work would eventually make the Beagle one of the most famous ships in history. She was Scrapped in 1870
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