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HMS Endeavour 1768 - Transport & Exploration (with plans)


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Replik der Endeavour, 1994

HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand, from 1769 to 1771.

She was launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, and the Navy purchased her in 1768 for a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean and to explore the seas for the surmised Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land". The Navy renamed and commissioned her as His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour. She departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reached Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of Huahine, Borabora, and Raiatea to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain. In September 1769, she anchored off New Zealand, the first European vessel to reach the islands since Abel Tasman's Heemskerck 127 years earlier.

In April 1770, Endeavour became the first ship to reach the east coast of Australia, when Cook went ashore at what is now known as Botany Bay. Endeavour then sailed north along the Australian coast. She narrowly avoided disaster after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef, and Cook had to throw her guns overboard to lighten her. He then beached her on the mainland for seven weeks to permit rudimentary repairs to her hull. On 10 October 1770, she limped into port in Batavia (now named Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies for more substantial repairs, her crew sworn to secrecy about the lands they had visited. She resumed her westward journey on 26 December, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on 13 March 1771, and reached the English port of Dover on 12 July, having been at sea for nearly three years.

Largely forgotten after her epic voyage, Endeavour spent the next three years shipping Navy stores to the Falkland Islands. Renamed and sold into private hands in 1775, she briefly returned to naval service as a troop transport during the American War of Independence and was scuttled in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, in 1778. Her wreck has not been precisely located, but relics, including six of her cannon and an anchor, are displayed at maritime museums worldwide. A replica of Endeavour was launched in 1994 and is berthed alongside the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney Harbour. The space shuttle Endeavour is named for the original ship. Endeavour also features on the New Zealand 50-cent coin.

 

Class and type:                          Bark

Tons burthen:                            368 71⁄94 (bm)

Length:                                       106 ft (32 m)

Beam:                                          29 ft 3 in (8.92 m)

Sail plan:                                     Full rigged ship

                                                     3,321 square yards (2,777 m2) of sail

Speed:                                        7 to 8 knots (13 to 15 km/h) maximum

Boats and landing

craft carried:                              yawl, pinnace, longboat, two skiffs

Complement:                             94, comprising:

                                                    71 ship's company

                                                    12 marines

                                                    11 civilians

Armament:                                 10 4-pdrs, 12 swivel guns

 

 

Plans Endeavour (1768)

 

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im utterly surprised this ship hasn't been asked for before. want 100x want! 

 

but at the moment everyone's focus is warships or converted warships.

 

i think we should have a new poll on what PURELY MERCHANT / EXPLORER  ships to have in game. or if the admins have an ideal list can we know it? 

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Thanks. I like her ! Great ship for exploration purposes.

 

i think we should have a new poll on what PURELY MERCHANT / EXPLORER  ships to have in game. or if the admins have an ideal list can we know it? 

+1.

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