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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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To 2025 ears, a rather ignominious name. Sounds like a Jimmie John's promotion.
Maybe Lord Sammich would be better?
Tall Ships Are Awsome!
Renamed the Lord Sandwich in 1775?
Hold the Mayo?...................
Hey jack. Didn’t Cap’n Cook get et by cannibals, like Uncle Bosie?
Remind me to never click on any link that goes to NY Post. Getting bombarded
Use BRAVE Browser. Won’t do that...........
According to my BRAVE Browser Shield Count, there are 31 ‘trackers’ at the NY Post website............
Way cool.
“Didn’t Cap’n Cook get et by cannibals,”
He was murdered in Hawaii. Then buried at sea there.
Ship looks new after 250 years on the bottom of the North Atlantic!! WOW!!! :-)
That sucks. Sail the world, work your ass off, blaze trails, eating crappy food and drinking dank water only to be killed by savages just before retirement.
Heh: “Just Stop Oil”....
LMAO. I can’t help it - everytime I hear Lord Sandwich I think of this SNL skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6XF4RxU7xQ
One of the incompetents that directed the war effort against the Americans and French fleet during the Revolution, we were pretty lucky in our enemies.
A couple times I have have visited where he died at Kealakekua Bay on Kona. There’s an interesting memorial for Capt. Cook there.
It would have been hilarious if the cook on the expedition had the last name "Captain".
The ship was named in honor of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was First Lord of the Admiralty. Same man for whom Cook named the Sandwich Islands.
The food item that we call a sandwich is said to have been popularized by him.
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