[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Bigg Red.

The wreckage of the Endeavour, the storied British ship that 18th-century explorer Captain James Cook sailed through the uncharted South Pacific, may lie a few hundred feet off Rhode Island's coast in Newport Harbor, researchers said Wednesday. The 105-foot (32-meter) long, three-masted bark, later renamed the Lord Sandwich, had been hired out by the British Royal Navy as a troop transport when it was one of 13 ships deliberately sunk by the British in 1778 in an effort to blockade the harbor.

"I am Kerfuffle, captain of The Lord Sandwich..."

[BenLurkin]

On the general subject of locating historical shipwrecks I recommend this non-fiction book:

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 5/4/2016, thanks again artichokegrower. Just an update.

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