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Researchers: Wreckage of the Endeavour, fabled ship of explorer Captain Cook, may have been found

Writer's picture: Dave Harmon, PW editorDave Harmon, PW editor

SYDNEY, Australia — The Endeavour set off from England in 1768 and traversed a world that sailors’ maps had yet to document. The ship bounded through the Pacific Ocean, scraping up against the Great Barrier Reef and stopping in New Zealand and Tahiti. The journey also charted parts of Australia, leading its captain, James Cook, to become regarded as a central figure in the nation’s origin story.


A decade later, the vessel sank after having been sold, renamed (as the Lord Sandwich 2) and scuttled, apparently left to anonymously join about a dozen other ships in a mass grave of wreckage off the coast of Rhode Island.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/world/australia/captain-cook-ship-endeavour.html

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