To: Bigg Red; afraidfortherepublic; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; ...
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..."
11 posted on
05/05/2016 6:54:16 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv; All
On the general subject of locating historical shipwrecks I recommend this non-fiction book:
13 posted on
05/05/2016 7:26:21 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
This topic was posted , thanks again artichokegrower. Just an update.
20 posted on
01/03/2024 6:34:16 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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