Scientists living and working onboard a research ship have given an insight into their unusual life onboard. Dr Yvonne Firing and Will Major have embarked on RRS James Cook expeditions as part of ...

The RRS James Cook is a scientific vessel operated by the Natural Environment Research Council of the United Kingdom (NERC) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). More specifically, the ship's ...

In August 1768, under the command of then-Lieutenant James ... Majesty's Ship the Endeavour [1768-1871] … by Sydney Parkinson (1773) Source: The Natural History Museum, London. Cook took a very ...

A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before the country’s national day.