Beagle off Galapagos

Thanks to Gordon Chancellor for permission to use this detail of the painting done by his father John of Beagle off the Galapagos. This shows just what a small ship she was for such a huge voyage. Remarkably, much of the surveying and charting work done by the Royal Navy's Hydrographic Office was done from the decks of these brigs. 'Not a particular ship,' a Charles Darwin said when he first saw her.