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The researchers confirmed that the 18th century British explorer Captain James CookThe lost ship found its last rest in the port of Newport of Rhode Island, resolving a mystery of the decades, according to to the Australian National Maritime Museum.
Two Australian historians, Mike Connell and Liddy, initially identified the location of the ship, called HMS Endeavour In 1998, the museum declared in a report published earlier this month. The museum report explained how an archive and archaeological research program of 26 years finally determined that the effort was, in fact, at the bottom of Newport Harbor as Connell and Liddy had thought.
Captain Cook has repeatedly sailed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in the mid-1700s. We remember him for his trip to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia, whom he claimed for Great Britain, as well as Hawaii, where he finally met his spell in a dispute with Aboriginal residents. The exploration of the islands by Cook laid the foundations for British colonization in these regions, which is why, for various reasons, it is an important part of Australian history, according to the museum report.
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“For some, the Pacific Voyage led by James Cook between 1768 and 1771 embodied the spirit of the Age of Europe of Enlightenment”, the summary of the report can be read
After Cook’s death, the effort returned to England, who used it to transport British troops and have prisoners during the American revolutionary war. It was sold to private owners, who renamed the Lord Sandwich ship, and deliberately sank into the port of Newport in the middle of the war in 1778.
When Australian maritime experts initially announced in 2022 That they thought that the effort was among a number of former shipwrecks dispersed in the port of Newport, the complaint was largely debated. But a partnership between the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission and the Australian National Maritime Museum has done before with the research which ultimately led to the identification of the wreckage. They work to ensure that the wreckage site is protected from now.
“Given the historical and cultural importance of Endeavour for Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, England, the United States of America and First Nations peoples through the Pacific Ocean, the positive identification of its shipwreck site requires the guarantee of the highest level of legislative and physical protection,” said the report.
