Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour found

Auckland: Researchers say they may have found the remains of the HMS Endeavour, the ship on which Captain James Cook first discovered the eastern coastline of Australia.

Cook commanded the Endeavour on his first voyage of discovery to Australia New Zealand between 1769 and 1771.

It was last seen in 1778, by which time it was being used as a transport ship during the American Revolution and renamed the Lord Sandwich.

Full story: http://www.smh.com.au/world/captain-james-cooks-ship-endeavour-found-20160503-gokrrd.html


-- Sydney Morning Herald 2016-05-03

Wow!

Any chance of telling us where ?

Read the article in the link. You do know how that works, don't you?

Endeavour, good name for a ship.

Lord Sandwich, not so much...

Most of this old hat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endeavour

Endeavour, good name for a ship.

Lord Sandwich, not so much...

You would prefer Lord Sub?

Love that they found it, probably

A relic of Savage Imperialism personified by Captain Cook.

Great find

They haven't found it:

Researchers say they MAY have found the remains of the HMS Endeavour,

However the headline reads:

Captain James Cook's ship Endeavour found.

Since there is a conflict, this article must be viewed as worthless or assume that Captain Bligh's ship 'Bounty' has been found (or not)

It is about time...he has been AWOL for decades...BTW how was the good Captain?

A relic of Savage Imperialism personified by Captain Cook.

Change ​savage to scientific .

​Cook's three Pacific voyages produced a wealth of knowledge that Great Britain used very effectively in the following century.

Sink that mindless denigration of imperialism and look at historical events in the context that they occurred.

Did they find it with Boaty Mcboatface?

Read up a bit more, GingerBen.

Conquering was the rule of the day. Not science.

So when are they going to find MH 370?

Whoop-de-doo

A relic of Savage Imperialism personified by Captain Cook.

Change ​savage to scientific .

​Cook's three Pacific voyages produced a wealth of knowledge that Great Britain used very effectively in the following century.

Sink that mindless denigration of imperialism and look at historical events in the context that they occurred.

And bringing western values and diseases that killed the majority of previously happy and healthy people around the world.

Hail Britannia!

A relic of Savage Imperialism personified by Captain Cook.

Change ​savage to scientific .

​Cook's three Pacific voyages produced a wealth of knowledge that Great Britain used very effectively in the following century.

Sink that mindless denigration of imperialism and look at historical events in the context that they occurred.

And bringing western values and diseases that killed the majority of previously happy and healthy people around the world.

Hail Britannia!

That was a two way street, there were a few diseases that were picked up and brought back home, too.

A relic of Savage Imperialism personified by Captain Cook.

Change ​savage to scientific .

​Cook's three Pacific voyages produced a wealth of knowledge that Great Britain used very effectively in the following century.

Sink that mindless denigration of imperialism and look at historical events in the context that they occurred.

And bringing western values and diseases that killed the majority of previously happy and healthy people around the world.

Hail Britannia!

That was a two way street, there were a few diseases that were picked up and brought back home, too.

Yeah, like syphilis.

But keep it to yourself.

I think the OP was about the whoop-de-Doo of locating some quite old bits of wood on the sea floor ... They weren't "discovered" as its been known more or less where they were all along... The British Navy scuttled them after all....

So now we digress into a discussion about "colonialism"... British or otherwise!

No doubt huge sums of tax payers money were wasted in this endeavour... And yet more will be spent to "recover" it... And house it much like the "Mary Rose"...

In the meantime people are dying... Through lack of funding in police, hospitals, social services .... Etc...

If they keep looking maybe Capt Jack Sparrow and his Black Pearl will be found one day ,

Read up a bit more, GingerBen.

Conquering was the rule of the day. Not science.

Agreed.

Conquering was the rule of the day for every country that had the means to do so.

The voyages of Captain James Cook were exploratory and scientific. His expeditions were of immense importance to botany, anthropology, navigation, medicine, and exploration.

He made land claims in the name of King George III, but they were incidental to the reasons that members of the Royal Society argued the case for mounting the expeditions.

Cook did not discover much at all. But he did do some very good mapping. And his voyages a lot of good Botanical research. Australia and the islands below had already been discovered by other Europeans (Celts, Vikings etc) before him. Also the Egyptians are known to have landed in Australia . And there is a fair amount of evidence the Chinese and probably the Japanese had been there too.

But the Discovery of the Endeavour is certainly notable.

A relic of Savage Imperialism personified by Captain Cook.

Change ​savage to scientific .

​Cook's three Pacific voyages produced a wealth of knowledge that Great Britain used very effectively in the following century.

Sink that mindless denigration of imperialism and look at historical events in the context that they occurred.

And bringing western values and diseases that killed the majority of previously happy and healthy people around the world.

Hail Britannia!

That was a two way street, there were a few diseases that were picked up and brought back home, too.

it may be a two way street for the disease, but it was the same carriers

Any chance of telling us where ?

The seabed.

It wasn't 'The Endeavour' which was refitted as a troop carrier then called 'the Lord Sandwich' if I remember Mr Clegg's History classes correctly....

It should be off the East Coast of the USA or Canada.

So when are they going to find MH 370?

well this took almost two and a half centuries so they have a way to go