List of ships named HMS Beagle

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Eight vessels of 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 Darwin around the world in the voyage of Beagle.

  • brig-sloop
    in service from 1804 to 1814.
  • survey ship
    in 1825. After her famous voyage with Charles Darwin, she became a customs watch vessel in 1846, and was sold in 1870.
  • gunvessel
    launched in 1854 and sold in 1863, eventually becoming the Japanese vessel Kanko
  • HMS Beagle (1872), a 1-gun schooner serving in Sydney from 1872 to 1883.
  • HMS Beagle (1889), a Beagle-class steel screw sloop, the lead ship of a class of two, in service from 1889 to 1905.
  • HMS Beagle (1909), a Beagle-class destroyer, the lead ship of her class, launched in 1909 and sold in 1921.
  • B-class
    destroyer launched in 1930 and broken up in 1946.
  • survey ship
    launched in 1967 and sold in 2002.

Also, in 1766, the

gallivat
named Beagle that was armed with eight 3-pounder guns.

Battle honours

Ships named Beagle have earned the following battle honours:

See also

  • Beagle 2, a failed British Mars lander that arrived at Mars in 2003
  • Beagle 3, a proposed Mars lander mission to search for life on Mars

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