He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone. FitzRoy was a …

Captain Pringle Stokes was appointed captain of Beagle on 7 September 1825, and the ship was allocated to the surveying section of the Hydrographic Office. On 27 September 1825 The …

Beagle, British naval vessel aboard which Charles Darwin served as naturalist on a voyage to South America and around the world (1831–36). The specimens and observations …

Robert Fitzroy (born July 5, 1805, Ampton Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Eng.—died April 30, 1865, Norwood, Surrey) was a British naval officer, hydrographer, and meteorologist who …

2015年6月6日 · Robert FitzRoy, the superb sailor and founding father of the Met Office, is often remembered merely as Charles Darwin’s taciturn captain on HMS Beagle.

During the survey, Beagle 's captain, Pringle Stokes, committed suicide and command of the ship was given to the young aristocrat Robert FitzRoy, a nephew of George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of …

2023年6月19日 · In the 1830s, he was captain of the research vessel HMS Beagle, on which Charles Darwin discovered many things. The despondent officer committed suicide at the age …

Robert FitzRoy (1805 – 1865), later Captain of the Beagle, was born at Ampton Hall, Suffolk, England on 5 July 1805. Graduating from the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth aged 14, he …

Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged …

2016年3月31日 · Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s earliest …