Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...
Researchers may have found the remains of a centuries-old ship, which was once commanded by British explorer Captain James Cook. The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project says the HMS Endeavour may ...
On October 6, 1769, a sailor on Captain James Cook’s research vessel, the Endeavour, serendipitously earned himself a gallon of rum. He had just spotted the east coast of New Zealand, and his ...