10K views · 174 reactions | HMS Beagle A very organized mess! I spent the morning organizing all the lines to get my little model ready to put in the bottle. I actually ended up with 49 lines total, each of which adjusts a certain part of the boat. All of them have to be pulled into place, glued, and cut away inside the bottle. Scale 1:230 | S & G Ships in Bottles & Miniature Models | Facebook

In 1820, the 2-masted HMS Beagle 10-gun brig-sloop was launched on the River Thames near London. The 28-meter (90 foot) vessel’s second voyage (1831-36) was a circumnavigation of South America and then the globe–Charles Darwin was aboard as a naturalist. The ship was so crowded with crew that Darwin had to sleep in a hammock that was slung above the drafting table in the poop cabin! Aboard the 3-masted Mary Anne, you will have a more pampered experience than Darwin! She has 1,000 square meters o

2.3K views · 36 reactions | 200 years ago, a ship was built, the legendary HMS Beagle. Today, we celebrate the history of the vessel which explored the Galapagos and sparked Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. | Exodus Adventure Travels | Facebook