HMS Beagle Survey ship extraordinary - Conway Maritime Press
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 HMS Beagle Survey ship extraordinary - Conway Maritime Press
Newest Review: ... and what an excellent book it is too. Written by Karl Heinz Marquardt, HMS Beagle is an excellent resource for anyone ... more  ... interested in such things as the history and "build" of naval vessels. It will be of obvious interested to model makers, artists and writers and offers a wealth of detailed information about the structure and layout of the vessel, its sails and appearance at different times in its career as first a survey vessel and later as a customs watch vessel. The book is broken up into a number of sub-sections such as the history of the ship, including details of the various survey voyages that the Beagle undertook and mov...more |
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HMS Beagle Survey ship extraordinary - Conway Maritime Press: Little ship, big historical contribution (500 words)
by - written on 18/09/01 (Very useful, 273 readings)
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ISBN: 0-85177-703-1 I have always lived reasonably close to Greenwich and Woolwich which are areas of Greater London that are steaped in the history of Britain and the world at large. So when I found out that HMS Beagle, of Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species fame, was built in Woolwich Dockyards in 1818, I began to take an interest in this famous British Navy "little ship". In searching for information and an image of the Beagle my first stop was the internet, but apart from references to it as a foot note to its famous passenger, I found it quite difficult to find any tangible information on the Beagle until I came upon the book above, ... Read the complete review
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