Darwin records his experimentations with a hammock.
03-Dec-1831: Darwin’s first night aboard HMS Beagle
hms beagle
13-Jan-1833: The day HMS Beagle nearly sank
Charles Darwin’s closest brush with death during the Beagle voyage came on Sunday 13th January 1833, near that most infamous of nautical perils, Cape Horn.
25-Dec-1833: The HMS Beagle Olympics
On Christmas Day 1833, the crew of HMS Beagle held their own ’Olympic Games’ at Port Desire in Patagonia.
Film review: ‘The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists’
In which I dismiss any charges of historical inaccuracy against the latest Aardman animation.
The Dickens Connection
Dickens, FitzRoy and how a tragic loss at sea spurred efforts to forecast storms.