HMS Beagle (1872)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Beagle (disambiguation).

Career

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 x 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] She was paid off in 1883 and sold for £1,000.^[2]

Fate

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.^[3]

Citations

^ Winfield (2004) p.301
^ ^a ^b ^c Bastock, p.59.
^ "The Schooner Beagle at Callao, The Brisbane Courier, Friday 3 June 1892, p.3.". http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3542855?searchTerm=peru+beagle. Retrieved 14 October 2010.

References

Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0867773480
Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.

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