Eight ships 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 the 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.
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. OCLC 67375475.
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