The Australian National Maritime Museum has announced a shipwreck found in Newport Harbour, off Rhode Island in the United States, has been confirmed as Captain Cook’s ship, HMB Endeavour. There have ...

A replica of Lt. James Cook's H.M.B. Endeavour docked in Sydney. Australian reserachers say they have identified the real shipwreck off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island. Wikimedia Commons under CC ...

Among the key findings were the predominance of white oak in the ship’s construction—a material preferred by 18th-century shipwrights in the U.K., where the vessel was built—and holes that point to ...

Captain Cook explored the Pacific in the HMS Endeavor, but by the time it was lost not a decade later it had been retired by the Royal Navy, sold off, and turned into a prison ship. Renamed the Lord ...

Breakthrough evidence likely reveals the final resting place of the HMS Endeavour. Work has been ongoing at the site since the late ‘90s. The team says that samples taken from the ship show that the ...

The Australian National Maritime Museum released new details to support their 2022 claim that a shipwreck in Rhode Island's Newport Harbor is that of the Endeavour, the iconic ship sailed by James ...

More than 250 years after Captain Cook's famous voyage, a new generation of scientists continues the quest to understand the ...

James Cook, who began his famous voyage on the Endeavor in 1768 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Australian archaeologists made headlines earlier this year when they announced that a sunken ship ...

The answer to a centuries-old nautical mystery is sitting at the bottom of the waters off Rhode Island, scientists confirm. The ship that legendary explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the ...

Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region. We’re asking researchers to reflect on what happened and how it shapes us today. You can see ...