HMS Beagle

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
United Kingdom
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

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]

1. ↑ FitzRoy 1839, pp. 17–18. harvnb error: no target: CITEREFFitzRoy1839 (help)
2. ↑ Howitt, William (1865). The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: From the Earliest Date to the Present Day. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. p. 332.