Eight vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Beagle, after a dog breed. The most notable of these ships is the second , 1820–1870, which transported Charles Darwin around the world in the voyage of Beagle.
, a in service from 1804 to 1814. , a 10-gun , 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. , an wooden-hulled screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1863, eventually becoming the Japanese vessel Kanko , a 1-gun schooner serving in Sydney from 1872 to 1883. , a steel screw sloop, the lead ship of a class of two, in service from 1889 to 1905. , a , the lead ship of her class, launched in 1909 and sold in 1921. , a launched in 1930 and broken up in 1946. , a 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
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