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trish251
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I have, without success, been trying to find a crew list of the HMS Beagle on the trip with Darwin 1831-36.
If anyone has a link for same it would be much appreciated
Trish
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liverpool annie
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Hi Trish !
You've probably read everything there is to read on the voyage - but this will keep you quiet for a while !!!!!! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Beagle
HMS Beagle was a wooden sailing ship, 90 feet long which housed 74 people. It set off on December 1831. The captain, Fitzroy, was only twenty six and it was his first command. He had sailed as an officer on the Beagle's last expedition when the captain had committed suicide. Fitzroy knew there was mental instability in his own family, and he thought that a gentleman companion might help to relieve the loneliness and strain of being captain on the long voyage. Fitzroy was a good seaman, respected by the crew, and a brilliant surveyor, whose charts of the South American coast were in use until the second world war, but he was volatile and subject to mood swings. However the young men got on reasonably well most of the time, Fitzroy helped Charles to adjust to life on board, and Darwin, who was pleasant and easy to like, became popular with the other officers and the men. Later in the voyage one of the crew, Syms Covington, became his assistant in collecting and preparing specimens.
According to records - 66 people sailed with him but then another record said 73 !! .... I'm still looking!! - heres 4 plus the Captain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4429006.stm
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liverpool annie
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Still lookin' ...... ! but until then ........
On 16 October Darwin left London for Plymouth to prepare for the start of the voyage. He arrived on 24 October with a huge assortment of equipment. A few of the items he brought with him included:
12 shirts
1 carpet bag
1 pair slippers
1 pair of light walking shoes
1 microscope (a single lens model by Bancks & Son, London)
1 geological compass
1 plain compass
2 pistols (with spare parts)
1 rifle (with spare parts)
1 telescope
1 pencil case
1 geological hammer
5 simisometers
3 mountain barometers
1 clinometer
1 camera obscura
1 hygrometer (belonged to FitzRoy)
1 taxidermy book
2-3 Spanish language books
14 other books, including Humboldt's "Personal Narrative" and Lyell's "Principles of Geology Vol. 1"
1 coin purse (Fanny Owen's gift)
1 pin with a lock of Sarah Owen's hair (Fanny's sister)
The weather was now quite fine and the Beagle was ready to set sail on 26 December. Unfortunately, the opportunity was lost due to the entire crew being either missing or drunk from the festivities of the night before (for Christmas).
On the morning of 27 December 1831, H.M.S. Beagle, with a crew of seventy-three men, sailed out of Plymouth harbor under a calm easterly wind and drizzly rain. Darwin became seasick almost immediately and started to have second thoughts about the voyage.
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Pat Reid
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Trish:
Don't have the list (yet) but thought this would be of interest if you don't already have it. http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-voyage-of-the-beagle/
Hold on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
here is the crew list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crew List
Ash Gunroom - Steward
Beareley Sergeant - Royal Marines
Bennett, H - Quartermaster
Billett - Gunroom Boy
Blight, B - Maintop Man
Blight, J - Maintop Man
Bosworthick - Forecastle Man (ropemaker)
Burgess - Royal Marine
Bute - Royal Marine
Button, Jemmy - Passenger (to February 1834)
Bynoe, Benjamin - Asst Surgeon (Surgeon April 1832)
Chadwick - Maintop Man
Chaffers, Edward - Main Master
Childs - Maintop Man
Clarke - Foretop Man
Covington, Syms - Darwin's Servant
Darwin, Charles - Naturalist
Davis, E - Officer's Cook
Davis, J - Forecastle Man
Davis, R - Boy Steward
Derbishire, Alexander - Mate (to April 1832)
Door - Foretop Man
Doyle - Royal Marine
Dring, John Edward - Acting Purser (from June 1834)
Duff - Passenger (from February 1836)
Earle, Augustus - Artist (to August 1832)
Evans - Foretop Man
Fitz Roy, Robert - Captain (Commander Dec 1834)
Forsyth, Charles - Midshipman (from June 1832)
Fuegia Basket - Passenger (to February 1834)
Fuller, H - Captain's Steward
Hamond, Robert - Mate (Aug 1832 to May 1833)
Hare - Foretop Man
Harper - Forecastle Man (Sailmaker)
Heard - Forecastle Man
Hellyar, Edward - Clerk (Died March 1833)
Henderson - Quartermaster
Hughes - Maintop Man
Idlers - Carpenter's Crew
James - Carpenter's Crew
Johns - Maintop Man
Johns, D - Maintop Man
Johnson, Charles Richardson - Midshipman (later Mate)
Jones - Boy (Died May 1832)
Jones - Royal Marine
Kent, William - Asst Surgeon (from September 1833)
King, Philip Gidley - Midshipman (left February 1836)
Lester - Cooper
McCormick, Robert - Surgeon (to April 1832)
MacCurdy - Foretop Man
Martens, Conrad - Artist (1833 to 1834)
Martin - Royal Marine
Matthews, Richard - Missionary (left December 1835)
May, - Johnathan Carpenter
Mellersh, Arthur - Midshipman (Mate 1832)
Middleton - Royal Marine
Moore - Maintop Man
Morgan - ? (Died May 1832)
Musters, Charles - Volunteer 1st class (Died May 1832)
Peterson, J - Quartermaster
Phillips, G - Ship's Cook
Phipps - Maintop Man
Prior - Royal Marine (Midshipmen's Steward)
Rensfry - Foretop Man
Robinson - Foretop Man
Rogers - Carpenter's Crew
Rowe - Carpenter's Crew
Rowlett, George - Purser (Died June 1834)
Sloane - Maintop Man
Smith, J - Boatswains Mate
Sorrell, Thomas - Acting Boatswain
Stebbing, George James - Carpenter's Crew (Instrument maker)
Stewart, Peter Benson - Mate
Stokes, John Lort - Mate
Sulivan, Bartholomew James - Lieutenant
Tanner - Forecastle Man
Usborne, Alexander Burns - Master's Assistant
White - Quartermaster
Wickham, John Clements - Lieutenant
Williams - Maintop Man
Williams - Royal Marine (Died Dec 1832)
Williams, W - Boatswains Mate
Wills - Forecastle Man (Armourer)
Wright - Foretop Man
York Minster - Passenger (to February 1834)
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/covingto/appendic.htm#app_a
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trish251
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Many thanks Annie for all your links & many thanks Pat for finding the crew list - I googled all over and couldn't find it. I thought I had some family there but at a brief check it's looking doubtful. I shall study it further.
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Guy Etchells
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I have, without success, been trying to find a crew list of the HMS Beagle on the trip with Darwin 1831-36.
If anyone has a link for same it would be much appreciated
Trish
You may be interested in the following two microfilms from Microform. These are films of the original records.
http://www.microform.co.uk/academic/itemdetails.php?ref=R96687
Title: The diary and correspondence of Charles Darwin, written during the voyage of "The Beagle", 1831-1836
Related Names: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Description: 1 reel
Notes: Relating to the survey of the coast of South America. From the Royal College of Surgeons, Down House, Kent.
And the second-
http://www.microform.co.uk/academic/itemdetails.php?ref=R96688
Title: Notebooks compiled during the voyage of "The Beagle", 1831-1836 / Charles Darwin
Related Names: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Description: 1 reel
Notes: Notebooks nos. 1-18, coomprising the raw material from which Darwins' Diary was compiled. From the Royal College of Surgeons, Down House, Kent.
Cheers
Guy
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trish251
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Thanks Guy - probably slightly outside my price range at the minute - but interesting.
Trish
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