This is a history of the 10-gun brig and survey ship, "HMS Beagle". It became famous for her survey voyages under Commander Robert Fitzroy, especially once Charles Darwin wrote the "On the Origin of Species", which was based on studies undertaken during the voyage.
Karl-Heinz Marquardt is an internationally acclaimed draughtsman who contributes regularly to Conway's modelling quarterly Model Shipwright and has written 18th Century Rigs & Rigging and The Global Schooner, along with another Anatomy of the Ship volume on Cook's Endeavour, for the Conway lists.
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