List of chronometers on HMS Beagle

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Chronometer made by Thomas Earnshaw, from Beagle's second voyage

Chronometers were formerly used for the accurate determination of longitude by ships at sea. By measuring the time of local solar noon compared to the time of noon at a reference point the difference in longitude can be directly found. For this system to work, a timepiece showing the time at the reference point must be carried to the measuring point. A timepiece intended to remain accurate while subjected to the motions of a ship at sea and through extreme changes in environment, especially temperature, is called a chronometer. These were first built in the 18th century and were used extensively by mariners in the 19th century and into the 20th century, even after the widespread use of radio for time signals – the time signal was used to set the chronometer, but the instrument was still necessary to display the time.[1]

HMS Beagle was an Admiralty survey ship sent on three major expeditions. The first (1826–1830) was to survey the coast of South America in company with HMS Adventure. The second expedition (1831–1836) was to build on the work of the first in South America and then to go onward to establish a chain of linked reference points encircling the globe. The third expedition (1837–1843) surveyed the coast of Australia.[2]

A chronometer was first carried on a survey ship by James Cook on his second voyage in 1772. This was Larcum Kendall's K1, a copy of John Harrison's H4, the first practical chronometer. From 1818 the Admiralty began issuing chronometers to naval ships. From 1825, this became standard and ships were issued a second chronometer if the captain personally provided a third. Three chronometers was the minimum necessary to be able to identify whether one had become unacceptably inaccurate. By the time of the Beagle voyages, the use of marine chronometers had become routine and the ship carried a large number – an unprecedented 22 on the second voyage. This had become possible because the price of chronometers had decreased steadily as manufacturing increased. H4 had cost over £20,000 (inflation adjusted £3,870,000) to develop. Kendall's K1 cost £500 (now £88,000) and his cheap model, K3, cost £100 (now £15,900), but by the time the Beagle voyages were over the cost of a good chronometer had fallen to under £40 (now £5,000).[3]

Beagle required large numbers of chronometers because some would inevitably break down on long voyages and the chronometers were essential for the mission of the ship. Further, the rates of all chronometers vary with time. Although this can be allowed for by interpolating between the regular rate checks, there is no guarantee that the changes are linear, and often they are not. Averaging the readings from a large number of chronometers, especially if they are of a variety of types, will tend to cancel out such errors.[4][5]

To reach all points designated by the Admiralty for longitude measurements, it was sometimes necessary to take chronometers ashore, across inlets and up rivers too shallow for the ship. This put the chronometers at risk and the disturbance of moving them affected their accuracy. This was another reason for survey ships to carry a large number – most of them could be kept permanently in a safe, well-cushioned place on the main vessel.[6]

Chronometer makers

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Some details of the chronometer makers referred to in the lists below are given in this table. With few exceptions, they were London-based makers.

Chronometer makers
Maker Details
Arnold John Arnold (1736–1799) was the leading chronometer maker of his time. He opened his business in The Strand in 1763, and later went into partnership with his son, John Roger Arnold (1769–1843), forming the company Arnold & Son.[7]
Arnold & Dent This was the successor company to Arnold & Son and was formed by a partnership between John Roger Arnold and Edward John Dent. The partnership lasted from 1830 to 1840. Dent then continued in business in his own right. Arnold & Son was acquired by Charles Frodsham after Arnold's death in 1843.[8]
Dent Edward John Dent (1790–1853). After the end of the partnership with Arnold, Dent formed a business which was continued by his stepsons. This business ultimately became E. Dent & Co. and continued trading until 1976. Dent is perhaps best known as the designer of the Big Ben clock, which was finished by one of his stepsons.[9]
Earnshaw Thomas Earnshaw (1749–1829). An important figure in the history of chronometers, Earnshaw invented the spring detent escapement which later became the standard arrangement for all chronometers. He also made improvements to the temperature compensation of balance wheels.[10]
Eiffe John Sweetman Eiffe (d.1880). Until his death, Eiffe held a grudge against the Admiralty for their failure to give him a reward for his invention of an auxiliary temperature compensation, which was independently discovered and patented by Molyneux while the Admiralty was still examining Eiffe's version.[11]
French Santiago James Moore French, or sometimes just James Moore French, was active from 1808 to 1842. He was a London chronometer maker operating at the Royal Exchange, later at Cornhill.[12] French won a minor prize from the Board of Longitude for his chronometers and his no. 720 was the standard (that is, considered the best to which the others are compared) for 16 chronometers used to determine the accurate longitude of Madeira in 1822.[13]
Frodsham Charles Frodsham (1810–1871) was a clockmaker and chronometer maker with premises initially in Finsbury Pavement and then New Bond Street. He purchased the business of John Roger Arnold on Arnold's death in 1843 and was then based at the premises of Arnold's business in The Strand under the name of Arnold & Frodsham. He was granted a Royal Warrant in 1854 and reverted the name to Charles Frodsham & Co. in 1858. Charles Frodsham & Co. Ltd. is still in existence, but has moved from The Strand to another London address.[14]
Gardner Robert Gardner (d. 1875) was a Glasgow supplier who founded the business of Gardner and McGregor in 1834. He may not be the manufacturer of the chronometers he sold. His son of the same name (b. 1851) was a noted horological collector.[15]
McCabe McCabe was a London clock and watchmaker active from 1780 to 1811. He was born in Ireland but moved to London in 1775. The business he founded continued to trade until 1883.[16]
Molyneux Robert Molyneux (d.1876) was a clock and watchmaker with premises in Southampton Row. The partnership R. & H. Molyneux was formed between Robert and his son Henry in 1835. The business was succeeded by Birchall & Appleton in 1842, who in turn were succeeded by William E. Cribb.[17]
Morrice D. & W. Morrice, chronometer, clock and watchmakers, 80 Cornhill, London.[18]
Murray James Murray (1780–1847) was a Scottish clock, watch and chronometer maker with a business at the Royal Exchange from 1815 to 1847. His chronometer no. 819 won the top prize in the Greenwich trials for 1823 and later accompanied William Parry on his final attempt to find the Northwest Passage. His chronometers also accompanied James Weddell to the Antarctic Ocean, reaching, in 1823, the most southerly point achieved by any ship or chronometer up to that time. His son, James, continued the business and set up subsidiaries in Melbourne and Calcutta.[19]
Parkinson & Frodsham William Parkinson and William James Frodsham (1778–1850) formed a London business in 1801. Frodsham came from a long line of watchmakers. He was the grandson of William Frodsham, who was taught by Earnshaw, and his mother was the granddaughter of the famous John Harrison, the inventor of the first marine chronometer. He was also the father of Charles Frodsham. The company continued to trade until 1947.[20]
Pennington Robert Pennington (1780–1844) was a chronometer maker from Camberwell. Robert Pennington & Son was a partnership between Pennington and his son John that existed between 1832 and 1842. Pennington Sr. invented an improved sector.[21]

Nomenclature

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In the following lists, the designation letter ("Des." column) is a reference assigned to the chronometer while it was on board ship and was used to identify the instrument in logged tables of chronometer readings during the voyage. It was a temporary designation with no relevance once the ship's mission was over. The number ("No." column) was a number permanently marked on it by the maker and together with the maker's name uniquely identified the instrument. When referring to chronometers, the maker's name is frequently abbreviated; for instance, Earnshaw's chronometer no. 509 is known simply as E509. The "type" of all chronometers listed here is either box or pocket. A boxed chronometer is mounted on gimbals attached to its box. A pocket chronometer is in the style of a pocketwatch. "Winding" refers to the number of days that a chronometer kept going before needing rewinding. However, they were all wound at precisely the same time every day, except for the eight-day chronometers which were wound weekly.[22]

First voyage

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On its first voyage (1826–1830), the Beagle accompanied the Adventure, which led the expedition under the command of Phillip Parker King. The Beagle was initially commanded by Pringle Stokes, but Stokes became depressed and shot himself on 1 August 1828 while the expedition was at Port Famine. He died 12 days later. After a brief temporary command by Lieutenant Skyring, Robert Fitz-Roy, future first head of the Met Office, was appointed the new commander of Beagle.[23]

Beagle carried only three chronometers on this expedition; the majority of the expedition's chronometers were on board Adventure (see next section).[24]

Chronometers on first voyage (Beagle)
Des. Maker No. Owner Type Winding Comments Ref.
– Parkinson & Frodsham 228 Government[25] box – Assessed by King as "excellent", These two chronometers had previously been used on polar voyages before being assigned to Beagle. [26]
– Parkinson & Frodsham 254 Government[25] box – [26]
– McCabe 228 Government[25] box – Assessed by King as "excellent" [26]

Adventure's chronometers

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As the lead ship, the Adventure carried the majority of the expedition's chronometers during the Beagle's first expedition. They are included here for completeness.[24]

King both commanded the Adventure and led the expedition. His mission was to chart the coast of South America from the southern shore of the Río de la Plata to Tierra del Fuego. King was also ordered to use his chronometers to accurately determine the longitude of several points, mostly Atlantic islands, on the outward journey to South America. These included Madeira, Tenerife, the Cape Verde islands, and Rio de Janeiro.[27]

Chronometers on first voyage (Adventure)
Des. Maker No. Owner Type Winding Comments Ref.
A French 3296 Government box two-day Chronometers A to D were fitted in a box divided into compartments with each chronometer suspended from gimbals. Chronometer Z was also included in this box but fitted individually. [28]
B French 3295 Government box two-day [28]
C French 3271 Government box two-day [28]
D French 3227 Government box two-day [28]
E French 3290 Government box one-day Chronometers E to H were fitted in a box divided into compartments with each chronometer suspended from gimbals. [26]
F French 3291 Government box one-day [26]
G French 3292 Government box one-day [26]
H French 3293 Government box one-day [26]
Z French 3233 Government box eight-day – [28]

Chronometers A to H were new and King showed concern that they had not yet properly settled to a steady rate. It was the custom for Navy chronometers to be run for six months or so at the Greenwich Observatory and the rate checked before issuing to a ship. It was well known that new chronometers typically took six months to settle to a steady rate.[29]

Chronometer Z and the two boxes containing chronometers A to D and E to H respectively were fixed in a chest and secured to the deck as low down as practicable in the centre of the ship. This placed them near the ship's centre of motion which minimised movement. Fixing them in one place also ensured that the magnetic influence of the ship on the chronometers remained fixed and that the effect this had on the chronometer's rates stayed constant. Since the rates were regularly checked and variations allowed for in the calculations, the magnetic effect of the ship was automatically taken into account.[30]

Chronometers on first voyage (Adventure, additional)
Des. Maker No. Owner Type Winding Comments Ref.
– Murray 553 – pocket – – [26]
– Parkinson & Frodsham 1048 Parkinson & Frodsham pocket – – [26]
– French – French pocket – – [26]

Murray 553 had been on trial at the Greenwich Observatory for several months and had performed well. It was a welcome addition given King's concern over the newness of the French chronometers. Parkinson & Frodsham 1048 was lent to King by the makers for trial during the voyage. However, its manufacture was only completed two days before the Adventure set sail, leaving no time to check and settle the rate. The French pocket chronometer was another loan, this time from the maker of the main batch of government chronometers. It was used by King as a journeyman watch, transferring readings to and from the place of measurement, which allowed the principal chronometers to be left undisturbed.[26]

Second voyage

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Side view of Pennington's chronometer (chronometer V) showing the movement

The second voyage of the Beagle was commanded by Fitz-Roy and lasted from 1831 to 1836. The mission given to Fitz-Roy was two-fold. Firstly, he was to continue the survey work of South America by King on the first voyage and extend it through Tierra del Fuego around to the coast of Chile on the west side of the continent. Secondly, he was to establish a chain of reference points with known longitudes that could be used by future mariners to accurately set their chronometers. This was also the voyage that carried Charles Darwin. Fitz-Roy was given a detailed list of objectives by the Admiralty Hydrographer's office. The first part of the journey more or less repeated King's, partly to check King's results, but also to break the journey into small sections so that the chronometers could be rated over four days at each stop and changes in temperature between references would not affect them too severely.[31]

Beagle was not allowed to land at Tenerife through fears that those aboard would bring cholera,[32] but the ship proceeded to Cape Verde, Fernando de Noronha and Rio de Janeiro. She then spent some time surveying the coast of South America south from Rio de Janeiro, around Tierra del Fuego, the coast of Chile and as far north as Peru. Fitz-Roy finally detached Beagle from South America in August 1835. The Admiralty had not precisely specified his itinerary across the Pacific since they could not be sure how far north he would be able to survey in the time available, and hence precisely where he would be leaving from. But they did specify that he should stop at Tahiti, a point of previously well-determined longitude. The Admiralty also required that, like the journey across the Atlantic, it should be done in small stages to frequently rate the chronometers. Fitz-Roy chose to go via the Galápagos Islands. Subsequently Beagle visited Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and Mauritius.[33]

Using chronometers, the crew of Beagle succeeded in providing a chain of longitude distances that completely circled the globe for the first time. The sum of the differences in local noon between each location should have amounted to 24 hours since the Beagle completed a circumnavigation of the globe. The total discrepancy was only 33 seconds but Fitz-Roy considered this too large to be explained by chronometer inaccuracy alone and none of his results disagreed excessively with earlier surveys. He suggested that sailing mostly in the same direction relative to the Earth's magnetic field was having a small unexplained effect on the chronometers.[34] Nevertheless, an error equivalent to only 8.25 nautical miles (15.3 km) on a five-year voyage over tens of thousands of miles was a remarkable achievement.[35]

Each of Beagle's chronometers was contained in its own box, suspended on gimbals. These boxes were planted into a thick bed of sawdust laid in partitioned shelves, like open-top boxes, one partition for each chronometer. The whole assembly was placed in a small, dedicated cabin low down in the ship as near as possible to the ship's centre of motion. Most of the chronometers remained in this cabin throughout the entire trip. Not all of the chronometers were provided by the Government; some were owned personally by Fitz-Roy and one was lent by Lord Ashburnham. Others were lent by chronometer makers, who were keen to gain the prestige of having had instruments aboard major, well-publicised expeditions.[36]

No one was allowed in the chronometer cabin except when it was necessary to read or maintain them. Fitz-Roy employed an instrument maker, George James Stebbing, to look after the chronometers and ensure they were regularly and properly wound. Fitz-Roy paid Stebbing himself since the Admiralty had declined to do so and Fitz-Roy considered the function essential. The Admiralty conceded that Stebbing could be fed from the ship's stores – a favour not extended to Darwin who paid £500 (inflation adjusted £57,300) for his keep.[37]

Chronometers on second voyage
Des. Extended comments Maker No. Owner Type Winding Comments Ref.
A Molyneux 1415 Fitz-Roy box eight-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "good" [38]
B Gardner 24 Government box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "bad". It was not used after February 1835.[note 1] [38]
C Molyneux 1081 Molyneux box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
D Murray 542 Murray box eight-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
E Eiffe E Government box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
F Arnold & Dent 661 Arnold & Dent box two-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
G Arnold & Dent 633 Fitz-Roy box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
H Arnold & Dent 261 Fitz-Roy pocket one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
K Parkinson & Frodsham 1042 Government pocket one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
Chronometer K was used as the journeyman chronometer, carried to the place of measurement in its box (despite being a "pocket" chronometer). On most days, while under sail, the place of measurement was the ship's deck to determine the ship's position at sea. It was compared with the two best chronometers (the standards) immediately before and after each use and always agreed with the standard.[note 2] [39]
L Arnold 634 Fitz-Roy box two-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
M Frodsham 2 Government box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good". [38]
Chronometer M was later part of a set used to survey the British–US border in North America in 1846. It was reported to have stood up well to the cold conditions. [40]
N Molyneux 1175 Fitz-Roy box two-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
O Earnshaw 705 Government box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
P Frodsham 1 Government box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "bad". It was not used after September 1835. [38]
R Murray 584 Murray box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "very good" [38]
S Arnold 465 Government box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
T Molyneux 1326 Fitz-Roy pocket one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "indifferent" [38]
V Pennington 426 Lord Ashburnham pocket one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
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Chronometer V is at the British Museum (Registration No. 1958,1201.1743). It is one of only three surviving chronometers from the 22 carried on Beagle.		 [41]
W Molyneux 971 Government box two-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "good" [38]
X Earnshaw 509 Government box one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
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Main article: Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle
Chronometer X is the second of the three survivors from Beagle's 22 chronometers and is at the British Museum (Registration No. 1958,1006.1957). It was featured in the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects as object number 91.		 [42]
Y Morrice 6144 Government pocket one-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "rather good" [38]
Z French 4214 Government box eight-day Assessed by Fitz-Roy as "good" [38]

Attrition

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Beagle left with 22 chronometers, but returned to Devonport with only 11 still in working order. Four had been left in Peru with Beagle's Master's Assistant, Alexander Burns Usborne, who had been put in charge of a small boat, Constitución, to continue the survey of the coast of Peru. The mainspring of chronometer R had broken and several others had stopped. The 11 still in use were A, B, C, D, G, H, L, N, O, S and Z.[43]

A chronometer was damaged as Beagle was approaching Cape Horn on 13 January 1833. The ship was hit by three enormous rolling waves in quick succession. The first wave slowed the ship sufficiently that she could no longer make way and the second turned her broadside to the third. This last wave rolled the ship so far that the bulwark on the opposite side went 2 to 3 feet (0.6 to 0.9 m) under water. This was a critical moment for Beagle; many of her class had been lost through capsizing.[44]

Third voyage

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The third voyage of Beagle, under the command of John Clements Wickham, began in 1837 with a mission to chart the west coast of Australia between the Fitzroy River and the Swan River, and the Bass Strait – the channel separating mainland Australia from Tasmania. In 1839 Beagle was taken north to explore the Arafura Sea where Port Darwin was discovered and named. The voyage is also notable for the watercolour paintings of fish and other wildlife produced by 1st Lt. James Barker Emery.[45] In March 1841 Wickham gave up command due to illness and returned to England. Command was then given to John Lort Stokes.[46]

Other than mentioning that he carried a pocket chronometer by French which gave good results, Stokes' account of the voyage does not list or even enumerate the chronometers.[note 3][47] It may be that chronometers were now so commonplace that their use was no longer something of note. However it is quite clear that the chronometers remained a key part of the mission; frequent stops were made throughout the voyage to check the rates. On 7 December 1839 Stokes went ashore at Point Pearce near the mouth of Victoria River to make observations. Even though he knew the indigenous Australians could be dangerous, he left behind his gun to more safely carry a chronometer. While separated, Stokes was pursued by a group of Australians, one of whom pierced Stokes' chest cavity with a spear throw. Despite his wounds and profuse bleeding, Stokes considered the chronometer to be valuable enough to save; he carried it while he staggered back to his comrades barely able to walk and still being pursued by his attackers.[47]

Chronometers on third voyage
Des. Extended comments Maker No. Owner Type Winding Comments Ref.
– Arnold 818 Government box – Issued to Beagle on 27 May 1837 and returned to Greenwich on 13 October 1843. [48]
– Dent 114 Government box one-day Issued to Beagle on 27 May 1837 and returned to Greenwich on 13 October 1843. [48]
– French 4214 Government box eight-day Issued to Beagle on 27 May 1837 and returned to Greenwich on 13 October 1843. [48]
This chronometer was also on the second voyage. It was lost in HMS Erebus when she was abandoned ice-bound in the Arctic during Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage.[49] [48] Erebus was rediscovered in 2014.
– Arnold and Dent 633 Government box one-day Issued to Beagle on 27 May 1837 and returned to Greenwich on 13 October 1843. This chronometer was also on the second voyage. It was the personal property of Fitzroy. It was purchased from him on 6 May 1837. [48]
– Molyneux 1175 Government box two-day Issued to Beagle on 27 May 1837 and returned to Greenwich on 13 October 1843. [48]
This chronometer was also on the second voyage and was the personal property of Fitzroy. It was purchased from him on 6 May 1837. The chronometer was believed lost in the battleship HMS Irresistible when she was sunk in the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915 after she struck a mine and came under fire from Turkish shore batteries during the Dardanelles Campaign of World War I.[50] [48] In 2014, the chronometer resurfaced and was auctioned by Bonhams.[51] [48]
– French 210/3036 Government pocket – Issued to Beagle on 27 May 1837 and returned to Greenwich on 13 October 1843. The chronometer was disposed of during the Syrian expedition of 1860. [48]
– Arnold 138 Government pocket – Issued to Beagle on 22 May 1837 directly from Arnold & Son and returned to Devonport in 1842. [48]
– Arnold 294 Government – – Issued to Beagle on 3 June 1837 and returned to Greenwich on 13 October 1843. This chronometer was thought to be lost with Erebus in the Arctic but was otherwise mislaid and converted into a carriage clock. [48][52]
– Eiffe E Government box one-day Issued to Beagle on 3 June 1837 and returned to Greenwich on 13 October 1843. This chronometer was also on the second voyage. [48]

Notes

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  1. ^ Although Fitz-Roy states that it was not used, chronometer B appears again in the tables of measurements after Beagle had left Peru, presumably because Fitz-Roy now had a much reduced stock of chronometers.
  2. ^ Fitz-Roy gives the number of the journeyman chronometer as 1041, but it does not appear to be a different instrument to 1042 in his list of chronometers. There is no Parkinson & Frodsham 1041 listed in the Greenwich ledgers.
  3. ^ The source for the table of the third voyage is the ledgers kept at the Greenwich Observatory of chronometer movements. Although this was the usual Royal Navy source of chronometers at the time, (Gould, p. 253) in the absence of details from the ship's captain it cannot be guaranteed that additional chronometers were not supplied from other depots, or the personal property of the ship's officers. Nor does the issue of a chronometer indicate how well it actually worked in the field or even if it was used at all.

References

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  1. ^ Gould, p. 211
  2. ^ Fitz-Roy, p. 1
    King, p. 1
    Nicholas and Nicholas, pp. 3–4, 191–192
  3. ^ Fisher and Johnston, pp. 70–72
    Nicholas and Nicholas, pp. 4–6
  4. ^ Fitz-Roy and King, pp. 319–320
  5. ^ Nicholas and Nicholas, pp. 4–6
  6. ^ Haycox et al., p. 106
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    "Arnold & Dent", British Museum Collection Database, retrieved and archived 14 January 2012.
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  12. ^ "Santiago James Moore French", British Museum Collection Database, retrieved and archived 13 January 2012.
  13. ^ "Geography, astronomy &c: chronometers", The Annual Register for 1825, p. 259, London: various publishers, 1826 OCLC 643567581.
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  15. ^ Chamberlain, p. 456
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  17. ^ Britten pp. 634, 646, 670, 744
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  23. ^ Anderson, p. 44
    King, pp. xiii–xiv, 152–153
  24. ^ a b Fitz-Roy and King, pp. 318–319
  25. ^ a b c King, p. xvi
  26. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Fitz-Roy and King, p. 319
  27. ^ King, pp. xv–xvii
  28. ^ a b c d e Fitz-Roy and King, p. 318
  29. ^ Fitz-Roy and King, p. 319
    Gould, pp. 256–260
  30. ^ Fitz-Roy and King, p. 318
    Gould, p. 205
  31. ^ Fitz-Roy, pp. 22–32
  32. ^ Darwin, p. 17
  33. ^ Fitz-Roy, pp. 24–40
  34. ^ Fitz-Roy and King, p. 331
  35. ^ "Voyages of Captains King and Fitzroy", The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, vol. 9 (new series), p. 40, September–December 1839, Philadelphia: Eliakim Littell & Co., 1839.
    "Experiments on longitude", Army and Navy Chronicle, and Scientific Repository, vol. 10, no. 16, pp. 255–256, 16 April 1840, Washington: B. Homans.
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    Fitz-Roy and King, pp. 325–326
  37. ^ Fitz-Roy and King, pp. 326–327
    McDonald, p. 14
    Taylor, pp. 34–35
  38. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Fitz-Roy and King, p. 325
  39. ^ Fitz-Roy and King, p. 329
  40. ^ Pipon, p. 153
  41. ^ Pocket chronometer used on board HMS Beagle, National Museum Australia, retrieved 1 October 2010 and archived 1 Jan 2012.
  42. ^ "Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle", The British Museum, retrieved 8 June 2010, archived 1 October 2010.
    "Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle", A History of the World, BBC, retrieved 8 June 2010, archived 1 October 2010.
  43. ^ Fitz-Roy, pp. 482–483
    Fitz-Roy and King, p. 344
  44. ^ Fitz-Roy, pp. 125–126
  45. ^ Williams and Dent, pp. 40–41
  46. ^ Stokes, chapt. 1.1, 2.7
  47. ^ a b Stokes, chapt. 2.3
  48. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ledger of Receipts and Issues of Chronometers, Greenwich Observatory.
  49. ^ Delgado, p. 154
  50. ^ Thompson, chapter 6
  51. ^ "Bonhams : The property of Captain Robert FitzRoy, an historically important second quarter of the 19th century two day marine chronometer present on the second and third voyages of HMS Beagle Robert Molyneux, 44 Devonshire Street, London, No.1175".
  52. ^ "Horologists ponder mystery of how 19th-century chronometer survived fatal Arctic expedition", The Guardian, (20 May 2009) retrieved and archived 8 February 2014.

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