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My favorite commemorative stamp highlighted Captain James Cook’s 1769 voyage to New Zealand on the HMS Endeavour. Captivated, I eagerly read about his expedition to explore the South Pacific. Aboard ...
McNamara said that he came across that passage when he was at the State Archives on Tuesday for an event about the HMS Endeavour, and started reading through the charter. The next day, he fired ...
Penguin was a small prefabricated armed sailing vessel which was carried to Port Egmont aboard the much larger and much more famous ship HMS Endeavour. Endeavour had carried Captain James Cook on ...
Schools… I don’t know why I love abandoned ones so much, but there’s something about them. This week’s explore brought us to an absolute gem—a massive high ...
Sir Keir Starmer hailed the “national endeavour” which had delivered HMS Prince of Wales, her hi-tech systems and machinery, and continued to support the Carrier Strike Group 2025 mission. "As she ...
The Hunt House Apple holds a particularly fascinating history. Orchards in the North York Moors once supplied long-keeping apples to ships departing from Whitby, including the HMS Endeavour on Captain ...
Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied Captain Cook on HMS Endeavour’s voyage to the South Pacific (1768-1771), was appointed as an informal director to the Gardens by George III in 1773. Banks sent ...