Row over Captain Cook’s Endeavour
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Claims over the location of the ship in which British explorer Captain James Cook sailed to Australia in 1768 on his first voyage of discovery, have sparked a furious row between U.S. and Australian experts

RHODE ISLAND

Providence

Australian Maritime Museum claims wreck known as RI 2394 in Newport Harbour, belongs to Endeavour. But U.S. partners from Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project say claim is “premature” and “breach of contract”

HMS Endeavour

Class: Bark 

Length: 29.7m 

Beam: 8.89m
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Narragansett Bay

1km 0.6 miles

NEWPORT

ATLANTIC OCEAN

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ENDEAVOUR’S JOURNEY

1768: Cook sets sail on refitted coal ship Endeavour on scientific voyage to map Pacific Ocean

1770: Lands at Botany Bay
in what is now Australia, claiming territory for British crown

1771: Ship returns to England – renamed Lord Sandwich in 1776 and becomes troop carrier

1778: Scuttled by Britain’s Royal Navy in blockade of Narragansett Bay during American War of Independence

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Sources: Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM), Picture: Painting by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) National Maritime Museum © GRAPHIC NEWS