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1 posted on 06/20/2025 4:55:29 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 06/20/2025 4:55:44 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship...


3 posted on 06/20/2025 4:58:43 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please pray for my brother Ken)
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To: bitt; Ezekiel; Rennes Templar; SunkenCiv; Robert A Cook PE

It’s Friday so...

Definitely the Cook ship. Want proof? Every so often an old steamer trunk full of recipes and Cook books still bubbles up to the surface in that area...

(How many recipes can there BE for cuisine that is mostly crumpets, tea, scones and Beef Wellington? /lol)

...Now let’s hear *your* whale of a tale.


4 posted on 06/20/2025 5:35:41 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: bitt
cook was the worlds real first, and great, cartographer, map maker.

his charts were shown to be amazingly accurate when satellite images were used to update the worlds maps.

the guy was probably the worlds greatest seaman and navigator.

his only mistake, was overstaying his welcome in the sandwich islands.

cost him his life.

5 posted on 06/20/2025 5:39:03 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: bitt

Raise it and sink it again.


7 posted on 06/20/2025 5:57:30 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: bitt

Roddenbury took license when he created Capt James Kirk

Very close to Capt James Cook.

Adventurer, dashing, clever, intelligent, could fight and win, seeking new frontiers


9 posted on 06/20/2025 6:49:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bitt

There is no mention of futtocks I can see after a cursory review.


10 posted on 06/20/2025 6:56:14 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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Cook was cooked in Hawaii. 14 Feb 1779, The Endeavor was sold several years prior to his death and Renamed “Lord Sandwich”.....the Hawaiian Islands were named the Sandwich islands by Cook.

Cooks Parts cooked and eaten:

“The bodies of Cook and the marines were taken by the Hawaiians to their chiefs.[45] Cook’s body was dismembered, partly burnt, and distributed to the chiefs, which was an honour given to enemies of high rank.[46] Lieutenant James King took a boat to the opposite side of the bay, and was approached by a priest who offered to intercede and ask for Cook’s remains to be returned; King consented.[47] The following evening, two priests secretly returned a part of Cook’s thigh to the British. Some crewmen returned to the shore two days later to collect water, and skirmishes broke out. The British then burned down the priests’ settlement at Hikiau and killed five or six Hawaiians.[48][49] Three days later, more of Cook’s remains were returned to the Resolution, including his legs, arms, skull, some charred flesh, and the hands with the skin still attached.[50][51][52] The crew buried his remains at sea.[50] “

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


13 posted on 06/20/2025 7:32:56 PM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: bitt; SunkenCiv

Seriously SUNKEN, Civ!

And why is all the RUM GONE?!??!


15 posted on 06/20/2025 7:50:52 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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18 posted on 06/20/2025 8:00:46 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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In his earlier years, then Lieutenant Cook’s surveying and cartography skills were on display when his maps delivered General Wolfe’s army from Halifax up through the St. Lawrence River and onto to the base of the cliffs below Quebec City. General Montcalm’s, and General Wolfe’s careers, ended shortly thereafter.


20 posted on 06/21/2025 1:35:29 AM PDT by HardyCanuck (Press Gangs)
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