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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)
?
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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)
?
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