A ship retracing Charles Darwin’s journey around the world is set to make a historic homecoming in Cornwall. The 108-year-old ...

After Darwin’s voyage, the Beagle was attached to Britain’s customs and excise department and was used to catch smugglers along the Essex coast. In 1870 the 50-year-old ship was sold to scrap ...

Archaeologists believe they have found the long-lost remnants of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on the voyage during which he formulated the theory of evolution. The fate of the ...

On October 2, 1836, the ship reached English shores again. Originally, the Beagle had served the Royal Navy as a survey ship. However, it became famous through the expedition with Charles Darwin.

Falmouth was the port where HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin first set sail in 1831, and his return after a five-year voyage ...

Charles Darwin was not aboard the Beagle on October 18, 1839. Nor was he famous. Publication of On the Origin of Species lay almost two decades ahead. But his former shipmates, Commander John ...

The final resting place of HMS Beagle, the ship on which Charles Darwin made early discoveries about evolution, could soon be uncovered. Charles Darwin circumnavigated the world on the HMS Beagle St ...

Darwin200 is taking a 105-year-old Dutch schooner on the same route Charles Darwin followed in the 19th century in order to boost conservation.

Charles Darwin’s five-year voyage around the world aboard the HMS Beagle is one of the most famous scientific expeditions of all time.

A Dutch ship has left England on a two-year mission to study and save species discovered by Charles Darwin. The vessel is scheduled to retrace Darwin’s 1831 voyage.