My tale starts off with a three hour tour. I repeat - a three hour tour. 
Posted on 06/20/2025 4:55:29 PM PDT by bitt
The ship that carried Captain James Cook to Australia more than 250 years ago has been found off the coast of Rhode Island, according to a new report by the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM).
Known for being the first European vessel to reach eastern Australia between 1768 and 1771, HMS Endeavour was later sold, renamed Lord Sandwich, and repurposed during the American War of Independence.
In 1778, the ship was deliberately scuttled by British forces in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, along with a dozen other vessels, in an effort to block advancing American and French forces. It has remained submerged ever since.
After decades of extensive investigation, ANMM researchers have now identified a wreck known as RI 2394 as the likely remains of Endeavour.
The finding follows 25 years of archaeological research and underwater investigations, according to ANMM director Daryl Karp.
“The timbers are British timbers. The size of all the timber scantlings are almost identical to Endeavour, and I’m talking within millimetres – not inches, but millimetres,” said Kieran Hosty, an archaeologist with the museum and co-author of the report,.
“The stem scarf is identical, absolutely identical. This stem scarf is also a very unique feature – we’ve gone through a whole bunch of 18th-century ship’s plans, and we can’t find anything else like it.”
The announcement that a shipwreck in Newport Harbor, 200 miles up the coast from New York City, has been proven to be James Cook’s HMS Endeavour, will not surprise those who have followed the search for years.
In 1768, when Cook set out to record the transit of Venus in Tahiti,… pic.twitter.com/C5eTWoixfX
— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) June 17, 2025
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Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship...
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.
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.
My tale starts off with a three hour tour. I repeat - a three hour tour.
Raise it and sink it again.
Now there's something we can really wrap our minds around!
Was she scuttled before or after she went into the drink?
I want proof!
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
There is no mention of futtocks I can see after a cursory review.
Yes, Redcoats were evil.
They stuck their own one-armed Admiral Nelson-Lord Beaverbrook Smythe Tingly, 3rd Duke of Earl is a barrel of brandy.
And when they got home they put up a great big statue to him, kinky.
We’re trying to keep this forum family friendly and work safe as well.
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
He did arrive in good spirits.
Seriously SUNKEN, Civ!
And why is all the RUM GONE?!??!
But could Captain Cook beat the Kobayashi Maru? ;)
In the 1800s, an Englishman lived in the town that I grew up in in Illinois. He died, but wanted to be returned to England to be buried. They put him in a barrel and filled it with Whiskey and shipped him to the East coast, put him on a ship, and sent him home to England to be buried.
When they removed the barrel from the hold, they discovered that the sailors on the ship had drilled a hole and siphoned off all the whiskey to drink. (Dang Merchant Sailors!)
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.
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