Editing HMS Beagle (section)

==Final years==
In 1845, ''Beagle'' was refitted as a static [[Her Majesty's Coastguard|coastguard]] watch vessel like many similar watch ships stationed in rivers and harbours throughout the nation. She was transferred to [[HM Customs and Excise]] to control smuggling on the [[Essex]] coast in the navigable waterways beyond the north bank of the [[Thames Estuary]]. She was moored mid-river in the [[River Roach]] which forms part of an extensive maze of waterways and marshes known as The River Crouch and River Roach Tidal River System, located around and to the south and west of [[Burnham-on-Crouch]]. This large maritime area has a tidal coastline of {{cvt|243|km|mi}}, part of Essex's {{cvt|565|km|mi}} of coastline – the largest coastline in the United Kingdom. In 1851, [[oyster]] companies and traders who cultivated and harvested the "Walflete" or "Walfleet" oyster (''[[Ostrea edulis]]''), petitioned for the Customs and Excise watch vessel ''WV-7'' (ex HMS ''Beagle'') to be removed as she was obstructing the river and its oyster-beds. In the 1851 [[Navy List]] dated 25 May, it showed her renamed "Southend ''W.V. No. 7'' at Paglesham". In 1870, she was sold to "Messrs Murray and Trainer" to be broken up.