• before taking Charles Darwin to South America as captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy visited the Galápagos Islands a decade earlier as a midshipman aboard HMS Owen Glendower (pictured)?

Facts on topics related to HMS Owen Glendower (1808)

Second voyage of HMS Beagle

• HMS Chanticleer had been scheduled to survey South America, but was in such poor condition that the Beagle was selected instead for the 1831 voyage that established Charles Darwin as a naturalist?
• before taking Charles Darwin to South America as captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy visited the Galápagos Islands a decade earlier as a midshipman aboard HMS Owen Glendower (pictured)?

Royal Navy

• Able Seaman Just Nuisance is the only dog to have been officially enlisted in the Royal Navy?
• Admiral Robert Holmes (statue pictured) of the Royal Navy destroyed 130 ships and burned the town of Terschelling for the loss of three men in the action Holmes's Bonfire?
• Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield had joined the Royal Navy by the age of eleven?
• Captain Ralph Kerr, briefly commander of the Royal Navy's largest warship HMS Hood, had previously only commanded destroyers?
• one of the French ships captured at the Battle of Cape Ortegal in 1805 went on to serve the Royal Navy for 144 years?
• Horatio Nelson described Captain George Elliot as one of the best officers in the navy?
• Horatio Nelson's first command in the Royal Navy was the brig HMS Badger?
• naval historian William James declared that HMS Seine's victory over the French ship Vengeance (pictured) showed that British ships were "more potent than American thunder"?
• Mount Bate, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is probably named after William Thornton Bate, a Royal Navy officer killed during the Second Opium War?
• Rear Admiral John Adams of the Royal Navy was the author of The Adventure of Charlie the Cone, based on stories about a traffic cone, that he made up for his children on long trips?

Robert FitzRoy

• before taking Charles Darwin to South America as captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy visited the Galápagos Islands a decade earlier as a midshipman aboard HMS Owen Glendower (pictured)?