The first recorded sighting of the bird by Europeans was during the third voyage of HMS Beagle.
Their mother was Georgina Dorothy, née Thomas, (17 May 1864 – 6 October 1943); she descended from the family who included Commander William George Henry Skyring (born c. 1797) who was on the HMS Beagle surveying South America, and who surveying the west coast of Africa was murdered on Cape Roxo on 23 December 1833.
Her stepson, Julian Mustoe, is currently engaged in a circumnavigation of the globe following the route of the HMS Beagle.
Their teenage son, Charles Musters, sailed as a Volunteer 1st Class aboard HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin, but died of malaria in South America on May 19, 1832.
The series is centered around an 8 month voyage around the world on board of the clipper Stad Amsterdam which follows the route of the five-year-long voyage of Charles Darwin on board of the ship HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836.
The Gardens were also the home for over 100 years for 'Harriet', a tortoise reportedly collected by Charles Darwin during his visit to the Galápagos Islands in 1835 and donated to the Gardens in 1860 by John Clements Wickham, former commander of the HMS Beagle and later 'Government Resident' for Moreton Bay.
It was first charted in 1839 by European explorers aboard the HMS Beagle under the command of John Lort Stokes.
It is named after Robert FitzRoy, who commanded the HMS Beagle and was later the Governor of New Zealand.
The Long-tailed Finch was first described by ornithologist John Gould in 1840 as Amadina acuticauda, having been collected by Benjamin Bynoe, the surgeon aboard HMS Beagle.
An early mention of the animal is in the Journal of Syms Covington, who sailed with Charles Darwin on his epic voyage aboard the HMS Beagle.
He was very proud of his achievement of designing and supervising the refitting of his 60 Metre super yacht M.Y.Titan, rebuilt from a U.K. navy hydrographic vessel, HMS Beagle, built in 1968.
Lyell's interpretation of geologic change as the steady accumulation of minute changes over enormously long spans of time was also a central theme in the Principles, and a powerful influence on the young Charles Darwin, who was given Volume 1 of the first edition by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, just before they set out on the voyage of the Beagle.
As noted by Robert M. Young, these books effectively represent an encyclopedia of pre-evolutionary natural history, commissioned and published whilst Charles Darwin was on board The Beagle.
The species was first recorded by Lt. Emery of the HMS Beagle during the Australian leg of its voyage, with the lieutenant making a detailed sketch of the fish.
Wickham was established in 1970 by Cliffs Robe River Iron Associates (Robe) and named after John Clements Wickham, the captain of HMS Beagle, who surveyed the north-west coast in 1840.
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The best known of the class was HMS Beagle, converted in 1825 into a three-masted exploration vessel for its first survey voyage, then considerably modified for the second voyage with Charles Darwin on board as a gentleman naturalist.
As a young man he went out to Brazil to engage in commerce, and lived for several years at Rio de Janeiro, where in 1828 he entertained the officers of the exploring ships HMS Beagle and HMS Adventure.