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Royal Navy EnsignUnited Kingdom
Name HMS Beagle
Builder John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales
Launched December 1882
Fate Sold in 1883.
General characteristics
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.

She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in 1873 for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific. In April 1875, she ran aground on a reef in the Spanish East Indies. Her crew were rescued. She was paid off in 1883 and sold for £1,000.

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.

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