HMS Beagle

HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10 gun brig of the Royal Navy, named after the Beagle breed of dog.

Third voyage

Six months later, H.M.S. Beagle set off in 1837 to survey large parts of the coast of Australia under the command of Commander John Clements Wickham, with assistant surveyor Lieutenant John Lort Stokes who had been a Midshipman on the first voyage of the Beagle, then mate and assistant surveyor on the second voyage (no relation to Pringle Stokes). They started with the western coast between the Swan River (modern Perth, Australia) and the Fitzroy River, Western Australia, then surveyed both shores of the Bass Strait at the southeast corner of the continent. In May 1839 they sailed north to survey the shores of the Arafura Sea opposite Timor. Wickham named the Beagle Gulf and Port Darwin, which was first sighted by Stokes and which later gave its name to the city of Darwin, Australia. When Wickham fell ill and resigned, the command was taken over in March 1841 by Lieutenant John Lort Stokes who continued the survey. The third voyage was completed in 1843.

Related Topics:
1837 - Australia - John Clements Wickham - John Lort Stokes - Swan River - Perth - Fitzroy River, Western Australia - Bass Strait - 1839 - Arafura Sea - Timor - Beagle Gulf - Darwin - 1841 - 1843

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