The dock where Charles Darwin's ship HMS Beagle spent its final days has been given protected status to help preserve it for the public. The legendary 19th century vessel was most likely dismantled at ...

Descendants of crew members from the historic HMS Beagle gathered in Shrewsbury for a special event celebrating the life and legacy of naval surgeon Benjamin Bynoe.

The HMS Beagle had many lives. It first launched on the River Thames on May 11, 1820, as a ten-gun brig in the Royal Navy, but was soon after converted into a research vessel. Most famously, the ...

It was the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos Islands nearly 180 years ago, enabling him to make his breakthrough on the theory of evolution. Now another HMS Beagle will depart on a new ...

An international group of scientists plan to recreate Charles Darwin’s five-year sea voyage around the world aboard a replica of the HMS Beagle. They plan to set sail from London in 2014. “We want to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. London: The HMS Beagle expedition was arguably the most important voyage in scientific history, in which Charles Darwin collected the ...

This is the first and only picture of Charles Darwin on board HMS Beagle during his significant scientific voyage that led to his theory of evolution. The newly-identified watercolour painting depicts ...

Dr Robert Prescott intends to end the 140-year-long mystery A muddy river bank in the flat, watery landscape of southern Essex may seem an unlikely place to find one of the most important ships in ...

Charles Darwin on board the Beagle, painted off the coast of Argentina on 24th September, 1832 Credit: Photo: Sotheby's It was arguably the most important voyage in scientific history, in which ...