HMS Beagle (1872)

HMS Beagle was a schooner of the Royal Navy, built by John Cuthbert, Millers Point, New South Wales and launched in December 1872.

[2] She commenced service on the Australia Station at Sydney in 1873 for anti-blackbirding operations in the South Pacific.

[2] In April 1875, she ran aground on a reef in the Spanish East Indies.

[2] Beagle was then sold to Messers Bell & Davis, who sailed to Peru after defrauding the Australian Mercantile Loan and Guarantee Company.

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