Professor Keith Thomson, author of HMS Beagle - The Story of Darwin's Ship, said: "When they were at sea, Darwin mostly lay in his hammock, seasick. "I haven't been able to find a record of anyone ...

The HMS Beagle had many lives. It first launched on the River Thames on May 11, 1820, as a ten-gun brig in the Royal Navy, but was soon after converted into a research vessel. Most famously, the ...

‘HMS BEAGLE TO THE RESCUE’ It was a dark, overcast night in the summer of 1944, with a slight drizzle, reasonably clear visibility and a relatively calm sea, as HMS Beagle nosed its way out of ...

HMS Beagle was first launched in May 1820 from Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames, with the purpose of accompanying larger ship HMS Adventure on a hydrographic survey of Patagonia and Tierra ...

Relying exclusively for its material on archival sources, the nonfiction book "Odyssey" chronicles Darwin’s five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, and it gives the biographical story epic ...

In 1835, HMS Beagle made a five-week stop at the Galapágos Islands, 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador. There, he studied finches, tortoises and mockingbirds although not in enough detail to come ...

Natural history museums have played a fundamental role in preserving scientific memory. However, many of these museums' scientific collections have remained underutilized in recent decades. The ...

HMS Beagle 1 Articles Heirloom Chemistry Set. November 18, 2013 by James Hobson 57 Comments . We try not to share too many crowd funding projects, but when a tipster sent us to this Heirloom ...

‘HMS BEAGLE TO THE RESCUE’ It was a dark, overcast night in the summer of 1944, with a slight drizzle, reasonably clear visibility and a relatively calm sea, as HMS Beagle nosed its way out of ...

‘HMS BEAGLE TO TH RESCUE’ It was a dark, overcast night in the summer of 1944, with a slight drizzle, reasonably clear visibility and a relatively calm sea, as HMS Beagle nosed its way out of ...