I have just recieved my beautiful model of HMS Beagle which will be used for our exhibition on Evolution here at the Danish Natural History Museum. Thanks Premier Ship Models. Buyer of HMS Beagle Model Ship (Jan 09) MORE >>
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The model
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Thank you for sending the model HMS Bounty so promptly. The model arrived extremely well packaged, and in excellent condition.Mark Stevens , Buyer of HMS Bounty Kit (France Nov 08 ) >> MORE
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Thanks for the opportunity to work with Premier Ship Models on Tidewater’s model projects! Throughout the process though Premier has been
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Pictures are great, true craftsmanship! Well done, the quality of
the wood, speaks for itself too.Best Wishes to the team.Khalid Lodhi , Buyer HMS Bounty Model Ship (UK Nov 08)>> MORE
Handcrafted, scratch built and ready
made. Absolutely nothing to do, except to remove from their boxes!
Clients
of our model of the Beagle so far includes the BBC (TV programme "Our ancestors) ,Oxford University
Museum of Natural History, American Museum of Natural History, Cambridge University, Addison Gallery of Art, Philips Academy (Gelb Science Center), Eton
College Natural History Museum and MDM Props / English Heritage , Staatliches Museum Germany ,Danish Natural History Museum, Agder Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden Norway.
Many thanks indeed. Needless to say, I am looking
forward very much to seeing it to judge from the most recent photos, it
looks very fine indeed! I have already had one person asking how she might be
able to obtain a similar model for her own purposes (as we approach
Darwin's bicentenary in 2009), so I hope that your craftsmen will be able to
put their experience to good use!
HMS Beagle was originally launched as one of 115 Cherokee-class
10-gun brigs built by the Royal Navy between 1807 and 1830 and used in
a variety of roles including surveying and antislaver patrols.
By the time of her first voyage Beagle had been converted to a bark
rig. Her first major voyage was from May 1826 to October 1830 with HMS
Adventure, to chart the straits and passages of the southern tip of
South America; it was during this voyage that the Beagle Channel,
skirting the southern edge of Tierra del Fuego, was explored and named.
Under the stress of arduous conditions in the waters around Tierra del
Fuego, Captain Pringle Stokes killed himself in August 1828. Short of
provisions and with many of the crew ill, Beagle returned to Buenos
Aires where Lieutenant Robert FitzRoy took command for the homeward
voyage.
Six months after her return, Beagle was off to Australia under the
command of Captain John Lord Stokes, a veteran of the FitzRoy-Darwin
voyage. After surveying the western coast between the Swan River
(Perth) and Fitzroy River (named for his former commander), she sailed
around to the southeast corner of the continent. There, Beagle
conducted surveys along both shores of the Bass Strait, and then in May
of 1839 sailed northabout to the shores of the Arafura Sea opposite
Timor.
Her crew named a number of geographical features, including Port Darwin
(for their former shipmate) and the Flinders River, after the
indomitable surveyor of HMS Investigator. In so honoring his
predecessor, Stokes reflected that "monuments may crumble, but a name
endures as long as the world."
Her work in Australia done, Beagle returned to England in 1843, after
18 years' hard service to her nation and the world. Transferred out of
the Royal Navy in 1845, Beagle ended her days as the Preventive
Service's stationary Beagle Watch Vessel (renamed W.V.7 in 1863) moored
at Pagelsham Pool on the coast of Essex. She was sold and probably
broken up in 1870.
