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Captain Cook's Endeavour Found The wreck of HMS Endeavour, the ship that carried Captain James Cook during several trips to the South Seas, including Tahiti and Australia, has been located: Captain Cook's famous ship has seemingly been discovered in the United States 230 years since it was sold, sunk and forgotten. The Endeavour is one of the most famous ships in naval history and was used by Captain James Cook to discover the East Coast of Australia in 1770. The last sighting of the Endeavour was around 1778 when it is believed the ship was sold, renamed the Lord Sandwich, and then used to transport British troops during the American Revolution. Archaeologists believe they have found the scuttled remains of the Endeavour. Researchers with the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project said they believe the four ships, and two others previously discovered, are part of a 13-vessel transport fleet intentionally sunk by the British in Newport Harbor in 1778 to keep French ships from landing to aid the Americans' drive for independence. [ British sailor Captain James Cook, acknowledged by historians as one of the greatest navigators of all time, is credited with surveying Australia's east coast on the Endeavour expedition. Cook discovered New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia and claimed both for Britain. He was also the first person to circumnavigate the world in both directions in his ship, HMS Endeavour. |
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Bret: You do not miss a thing. Great discovery
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5/2/2016 1:28 pm |
Bret: You do not miss a thing. Great discovery
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5/2/2016 3:08 pm |
That guy got around! I am sorry I could not access their sonar readings or pictures to post in here.
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Capt Cook was a very ambitious and famous explorer, and his ship, the Endeavor, must have been built extremely well to have survived all those lengthy and perilous voyages. It is too bad that they can't build automobiles that well with today's technology. Perhaps it is the technology that makes today's cars so prone to "early death syndrome".
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5/2/2016 5:26 pm |
Capt Cook was a very ambitious and famous explorer, and his ship, the Endeavor, must have been built extremely well to have survived all those lengthy and perilous voyages. It is too bad that they can't build automobiles that well with today's technology. Perhaps it is the technology that makes today's cars so prone to "early death syndrome".
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cool they had found blackbeards ship Queen Anns Revenge a few years ago.And hugr4yungr they can build cars that well but they wont do anything that stupid. its just like medicine they just treat whats wrong with you. so you have to keep coming back. its the same with cars so you have to buy a new oneor keep repairing the old one.
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5/2/2016 10:25 pm |
cool they had found blackbeards ship Queen Anns Revenge a few years ago.And hugr4yungr they can build cars that well but they wont do anything that stupid. its just like medicine they just treat whats wrong with you. so you have to keep coming back. its the same with cars so you have to buy a new oneor keep repairing the old one.
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5/2/2016 10:26 pm |
I tried my very best to locate some photographs of the wreck site but none to be had
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5/3/2016 1:22 am |
with no mention of the Sandwich Islands I was surprised and thought you had omitted it. But alas that was on the ship HMS Resolution not the HMS Endeavor. As usual you are right and I wrong.
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5/3/2016 7:57 pm |
with no mention of the Sandwich Islands I was surprised and thought you had omitted it. But alas that was on the ship HMS Resolution not the HMS Endeavor. As usual you are right and I wrong.
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