The British Navy captain sailed the vessel to the east coast of Australia in 1770, eight years before it was sunk during the American War of Independence. The wreck of British explorer James Cook’s ...

Captain Cook set sail on the Endeavour, a refitted Whitby coal ship, in 1768. With 93 men on board, and at just 100 feet in length, the Endeavour was to sail to Taihiti to watch the 'transit of ...

Cook was chosen as commander of the Whitby-built HMS Endeavour. Those on board included ... to look for the southern continent. His two ships sailed close to the Antarctic coast but were forced ...