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  • Darwin's Beagle ship replica plan [for his 200th birthday]

    07/19/2006 3:55:15 AM PDT · by PatrickHenry · 461 replies · 37,234+ views
    BBC News ^ | 19 July 2006 | Staff
    Plans are being drawn up to build a £3.3m working replica of the boat that took Charles Darwin around the world at Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. Fundraising for the project, which would mark the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth in 2009, is under way. The aim is to built a seaworthy vessel identical to the HMS Beagle on the outside, but with a modern interior. Darwin, who showed how natural selection could explain evolution, sailed on the Beagle between 1831-36. Sitting opposite him on the expedition was mate and surveyor John Lort Stokes. One of Stokes' descendents, Pembrokeshire farmer David...