from Metro
The remains of Captain Cook’s ship, the HMS Endeavour, have finally been located off the US coast, after sinking 250 years ago. For two centuries this ship has been lost, but now the wreck has been found in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island. The finding of the ship was announced in a report by the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) where the experts have identified the wreck as RI 2394 (Picture: MoL)
Captain James Cook was a British naval captain, navigator, and led the ship to be the first European vessel to reach eastern Australia between 1768 and 1771. It was also the first ship to circumnavigate New Zealand's main islands. But in 1775, it was sold and renamed the Lord Sandwich before it sank off the US coast in 1778 during the American War of Independence. This image shows a replica of the ship pulling into Sydney Harbour (Picture: Getty)
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Top notch navigator, to accomplish what he did along with recording the birds and plants of New Zealand and get his men safely home after chartering unknown areas earns a high respect .
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