HMS Endeavour
HMS Endeavour off the coast of New Holland, by Samuel Atkins c. 1794
|
|
| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain
|
|
| Name: | Endeavour |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Thomas Fishburn, Whitby |
| Launched: | June 1764 |
| Acquired: | 28 March 1768 as Earl of Pembroke |
| Commissioned: | 26 May 1768 |
| Decommissioned: | September 1774 |
| Out of service: | March 1775, sold |
| Renamed: | Lord Sandwich, February 1776 |
| Homeport: | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
| Fate: | Scuttled, Newport, Rhode Island, 1778 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bark |
| Tons burthen: | 366 49⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: | 97 ft 8 in (29.77 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft 2 in (8.89 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft 4 in (3.45 m) |
| Sail plan: |
|
| Speed: | 7 to 8 knots (13 to 15 km/h) maximum |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
yawl, pinnace, longboat, two skiffs |
| Complement: |
|
| Armament: | 10 4-pdrs, 12 swivel guns |
Coordinates: 41°36′N 71°21′W / 41.600°N 71.350°W
HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand, from 1769 to 1771.
She was launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, and the navy purchased her in 1768 for a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean and to explore the seas for the surmised Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land". The navy renamed and commissioned her as His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour. She departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reached Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of Huahine, Bora Bora, and Raiatea to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain. In September 1769, she anchored off New Zealand, the first European vessel to reach the islands since Abel Tasman's Heemskerck 127 years earlier.
...
Wikipedia