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Name | HMS Beagle |
Builder | John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales |
Launched | December 1882 |
Fate | Sold in 1883. |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Beagle-class schooner |
Tons burthen | 120 bm |
Length | 77 ft 0 in (23.5 m) |
Beam | 18 ft 6 in (5.6 m) |
Depth of hold | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
Sail plan | Schooner |
Complement | 27 |
Armament | 1 × 12-pounder gun |
HMS Beagle was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales and launched in December 1872.[2]
She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in 1873 for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific.[2] In April 1875, she ran aground on a reef in the Spanish East Indies. Her crew were rescued.[3] She was paid off in 1883 and sold for £1,000.[2]
Fate
[edit]Beagle was then sold to Messers Bell & Davis, who sailed to Peru after defrauding the Australian Mercantile Loan and Guarantee Company. She was then sold at Callao to Silvino Cavalie.[4]
Citations
[edit]References
[edit]- Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0
- Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.