HMS Beagle

[DanTribe]

According to Anglia News, the last resting place of Charles Darwin's ship has been found in the River Roach.
Apparently the brokerage firm have her listed on their books but aren't sure where it is and have lost the owners address.
Will the boatyard want 130 years back mooring fees before archeologists start to excavate?
But seriously, is there anything to be learned from finding the remains of a historic ship that had been laid up for 20 years before being partly dismantled and abandoned? Is this just another exhibit in Museum Britain, showing how good we used to be?
Dan

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[snowleopard]

alternative scenario... lots of beardies with trowels appear and dig enormous hole. find nothing. smart alec constructs marina in newly created basin. local yotties thrust huge wads of cash at him. smart alec retires to barbados.

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[AndrewB]

Deja Vu?

They also found it a year ago, as was reported by the <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/31/nbeag31.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/05/31/ixhome.html>TELEGRAPH</A> and discussed here then. Clearly it didn't cause a big enough stir first time round.

 

[Mirelle]

Amazing what you find in Essex mud!

The ship was a bog standard RN design of the day, built by the mile and cut off by the yard, of no technical interest whatsoever. Her commanding officer was slightly nutty and mildly interesting and her scientific passenger was one of the finest minds who ever lived, but the ship herself is of no possible interest.

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[AndrewB]

Let the market decide.

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Why do I have this hunch we'll soon be seeing 'genuine original Beagle timbers' for sale on Ebay, sufficient to build a full size replica of the QE2?

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[Evadne]

Re: Amazing what you find in Essex mud!

If the Time Team et.al. decide to resurrect every boat that's been abandoned in the mud around the coast of Britain in the last 200 years then they will have found themselves a job for life, although the resulting emissions from tonnes of exposed anaerobic Essex mud may cause global warming, and we also may have a National Maritime Museum Shortage as a result. Something else to blame Tony Blair for, I guess.


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[squidge]

Fake !!!!!

Fake!! The anchor that they "found" in the mud was removed from a villagers garden for the TV crew and replaced in the garden after filming.It was recovered from the mud years ago and has sat in the garden for years.
I wonder what other items in programmes have been "found" in the same way.

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[squidge]

Re: Fake !!!!!

Mr Johnlongrick. I have replied to your PM .

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