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Captain James Cook’s lost ship Endeavour discovered after 250 years
NY Post ^ | 06/16/2025 | Ben Cost

Posted on 06/16/2025 9:56:35 AM PDT by DFG

Holy ship.

Captain James Cook’s famous lost ship Endeavour has been rediscovered off Rhode Island, closing the book on a maritime mystery that has endured for 250 years.

The iconic vessel’s alleged final resting spot was detailed in a recent report by the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM), which had been searching for the lost ship since 1999.

“This final report is the culmination of 25 years of detailed and meticulous archaeological study on this important vessel,” said museum director Daryl Karp of the document, which he described as the “definitive statement” on the project, Pen News reported. “It has involved underwater investigation in the US and extensive research in institutions across the globe.”

During the British explorer’s first expedition between 1768 and 1771, the HMS Endeavour circled the globe and became the first European ship to land in Eastern Australia and circumnavigate New Zealand.

Unfortunately, the legendary ship fell into obscurity shortly thereafter when it was repurposed as a transport ship for British troops.

Endeavour was then sold off to the shipping company Mather and Co, before getting refitted and renamed the Lord Sandwich in 1775, when she formed part of the British fleet during the Revolutionary War.

Endeavour was finally scuttled off the coast of the US in 1778.

The sunken remains then lay at the bottom of the ocean for two and a half centuries until experts formally identified the ship with a wreck called RI 2395, which was located in Newport Harbor, RI.

Researchers were able to confirm that it was indeed Cook’s lost ship by comparing the wreckage with the vessel’s historic plans, finding that the placement of certain timbers was a dead ringer for the locations of its main and fore masts in the outline.

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