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Pringle Stokes (23 April 1793 – 12 August 1828) was a British naval officer who served in HMS Owen Glendower on a voyage around Cape Horn to the Pacific coast of South America, and on the West African coast fighting the slave trade.
- British
- 23 April 1793, Surrey, England
- Naval officer
- Command of HMS Beagle
29 de jun. de 2003 · On 2 August 1828, Captain Pringle Stokes, commander of HMS Beagle, came to the despairing conclusion that he had botched the surveys he was then carrying out in Tierra del Fuego.
The novel begins in 1828 with the suicide of the commander of HMS Beagle, Pringle Stokes, and FitzRoy’s subsequent appointment as the vessel’s (temporary) captain at the age of twenty-three.
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- Harry Thompson
- 6 June 2005
- Headline Review
Pringle Stokes (Surrey, Inglaterra, 23 de abril de 1793-Puerto del Hambre, Chile, 12 de agosto de 1828) fue un oficial de la Armada Británica, del cual se tienen pocos antecedentes.
27 de dez. de 2021 · Captain Pringle Stokes was appointed captain of HMS Beagle on 7 September 1825 and led its first voyage, accompanying the larger ship HMS Adventure on a hydrographic survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, under the overall command of the Australian Captain Phillip Parker King, Commander and Surveyor.
Face à morte do capitão Pringle Stokes, o comandante da expedição, o capitão Parker King, entregou o comando interino do Beagle ao tenente W. G. Skyring, que até ali exercia as funções de imediato do navio.
It was during this voyage that the Beagle Channel was identified and named, and the ship’s commanding officer, Commander Pringle Stokes, committed suicide after suffering from depression and locking himself in his cabin for a month.
