- Source: List of ships named HMS Beagle
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.
HMS Beagle (1804), a Cruizer-class brig-sloop in service from 1804 to 1814.
HMS Beagle, a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched in 1820 and converted to a survey ship in 1825. After her famous voyage with Charles Darwin, she became a customs watch vessel in 1846, and was sold in 1870.
HMS Beagle (1854), an Arrow-class wooden-hulled screw 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.
HMS Beagle (H30), a B-class destroyer launched in 1930 and broken up in 1946.
HMS Beagle (A319), a Bulldog-class hydrographic survey ship launched in 1967 and sold in 2002.
Also, in 1766, the Bombay Marine, which was the British East India Company's navy, had a gallivat named Beagle that was armed with eight 3-pounder guns.
Battle honours
Ships named Beagle have earned the following battle honours:
Basque Roads, 1809
San Sebastian, 1813
Crimea, 1854−55
China, 1856−60
Dardanelles, 1915−16
Norway, 1940
Atlantic, 1940−43, 1945
North Africa, 1942
Arctic, 1942−44
English Channel, 1943
Normandy, 1944
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
References
Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- List of ships named HMS Beagle
- HMS Beagle
- Beagle (disambiguation)
- Beagle Channel
- HMS Beagle (A319)
- HMS Nautilus
- The Voyage of the Beagle
- List of chronometers on HMS Beagle
- HMS Scorpion
- HMS Grampus
