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When and where was HMS Beagle launched?

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HMS Beagle on the Strait of Magellan, South America, originally published in an 1890 edition of Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle. — Beagle HMS Beagle on the Strait of Magellan, South America, originally published in an 1890 edition of Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle.

HMS Beagle was launched on May 11, 1820, at Woolwich, which was the site of the Royal Navy’s dockyards on the River Thames near London.1