This prefix is used with all British military ships. Literally, it means "the ship of the King" (when Darwin was onboard the Beagle, George V was in power). Today, however, it stands for Her Majesty's Ship.
H.M.S. is the acronymic prefix placed in front of the name of vessels of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The letters stand for "Her Majesty's Ship" or "Her...
His/Her Majesty's Ship Beagle. It is the ship that Charles Darwin made his famous voyage of discovery on. The trip has been memorialized in the book The Voyage of the Beagle. and been parodied in The...
It is a British ship first off and the beagle is British. Second its just because who ever owned that ship or ordered it to be built wanted it to be named that.