#hms beagle

[ltwilliammowett]

Charles Darwin's Beagle arrives at Tahiti, 15th November 1835, by Gregory Smith, 2024

[i-eat-booooks]

Staring new week with reading about Charles Darwin’s life & voyage on HMS Beagle -

(Which immediately persuaded me to book tickets for a family trip to Down House, Kent !)

[wandererseas]

first painting in my "famous sailing ships or something" series (x)

if anyone has suggestions for this series I would be happy to hear them out! (hms terror and erebus are up next of course)

[whispersinthecosmos]

Guys, my mother discovered something absolutely insane + amazing through researching our family tree. We discovered that ANOTHER relative of ours (but on our grandma’s side) was also on the HMS Beagle and best friends with Charles Darwin. Our relative on our grandfather’s side was also on the HMS Beagle and friends with Charles. So they were on there at the same time.

Decades later, my grandmother and grandfather would meet, having no idea that two people in their family were in such close proximity.

What are the chances?!?! this makes me believe in fate

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Although he would return heavily encumbered by fossils, rock samples and the bodies of interesting wildlife, Darwin carried as little as possible on these trips, and only ever packed one book to read (usually Milton's Paradise Lost) and a single notebook.

"The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" - Roland Allen

[funnyhatmen]

On this indigenous Peoples' Day we need to recall Darwin's travel aboard the HMS Beagle. That not only carried english sailors but also indigenous individuals who had been kidnapped as children from Tierra del Fuego.

Yokcushlu, Orundellico and Elleparu.

[geritsel]

Conrad Martens -  Two watercolors of the voyage of The Beagle, Terra del Fuego and Mount Sarmiento

[beaglefanblog]

Things Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, wrote in letters to Charles Darwin:

(During the voyage of the Beagle, while Darwin was away from the ship exploring the interior of South America.)

I think of you every time the ship pitches, which is every few seconds

Are you dead? No wait you can't be dead I just got a letter from you

Come back and look at these crazy fossils I found! [gives a wildly exaggerated/physically impossible description of these alleged fossils]

Did you get my apology letter?* I promise to get my shit together

"Est avis in navibus Carlos rarissima Darwin" Charles Darwin is the rarest of birds aboard ship

Our friend's wife died but idk why he's sad, surely no one actually wants to be married to a woman

Come back I'll send you a boat I'll send you a boat literally whenever just please come back soon

Remember that guy you stole bones with??**

Here is two paragraphs of the imaginary conversation I'm having with you right now

Haha I didn't mean that I'm actually DRUNK ON TEA

At least you're not THAT far away I GUESS

PS I wish I could be excited about your adventures but I just wish you were here and I'm worried you'll get hurt

* The apology letter is lost. What was he apologising for? I guess we'll never know. ** FitzRoy gives no name but I MUST KNOW who stole bones with Charles Darwin, please lmk if you have a clue