Hms beagle

[Colin Wood]

While under the command of John Wickham and surveyor Lieutenant John Lort Stokes, the HMS Beagle lost 2 anchors whilst surveying the Victoria River in North Australia. She was surveying Australia at the time and had previously surveyed and named Port Darwin. Their Lordships were not amused and an inquiry was held which established the approximate position of the anchors.

Peter Dermoudy, a Darwin architect and keen historian carried out a search for the anchors lost in 'Holdfast Reach' in the Victoria River but was unsuccessful.
A team of young Darwin men have now carried out a further search, using charts that Peter had used and apperar to have found the smaller of the 2 anchors, and are now preparing to try and recover the anchor and find the larger one and hope to have the anchors on show at the Darwin museum.

(Story in The Weekend Australian of October 27 28 2018.

[Captain Kong]

I will be in Darwin in March , if I get a chance will try to see them.
Brian

[Colin Wood]

The museum and art gallery, East Point military museum and old QANTAS hanger off of Hudson Fysh are all well worth a visit.