A Cherokee-class brig-sloop, launched from the Woolwich Dockyard. She was adapted as a survey barque and took part in three expeditions, the second of which was the voyage on which the young Charles Darwin began to form his theory of evolution.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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