Captain Cook's Ship Endeavour.

[Jim Brady]

I didn't know that a trip to Hawaii in1779 cost him his life.Cook 50 was in dispute with locals when he was stabbed to death trying to kidnap their king for a ransom.
Regards.
Jim.B.

Captain Cook's ship Endeavour which he discovered Australia on 'is found' 230 years after it disappeared - Mirror Online

[Richard Quartermaine]

We learned that at school Jim. Long before Hawaii 50 were there to investigate. Another thing, Beauty in royalty in Polynesia was associated with mountainous appetites on a very large scale.
Here's the only Yorkshire dwelling house that i know of that was transported here whollus bollus. Cooks' CottageÂ*-Â*CityÂ*ofÂ*Melbourne
Cheers, Richard

[Jim Brady]

Very good Richard,you would think that you were in an English country village.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Captain Kong]

On February 14, 1779, Captain James Cook, the great English explorer and navigator, is murdered by natives of Hawaii during his third visit to the Pacific island group.

In 1768, Cook, a surveyor in the Royal Navy, was commissioned a lieutenant in command of the HMS Endeavor and led an expedition that took scientists to Tahiti to chart the course of the planet Venus. In 1771, he returned to England, having explored the coast of New Zealand and Australia and circumnavigated the globe. Beginning in 1772, he commanded a major mission to the South Pacific and during the next three years explored the Antarctic region, charted the New Hebrides, and discovered New Caledonia. In 1776, Cook sailed from England again as commander of the HMS Resolution and Discovery, and in January 1778 he made his first visit to the Hawaiian Islands. He may have been the first European to ever visit the island group, which he named the Sandwich Islands in honor of one of his patrons, John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich.

Cook and his crew were welcomed by the Hawaiians, who were fascinated by the Europeans’ ships and their use of iron. Cook provisioned his ships by trading the metal, and his sailors traded iron nails for sex. The ships then made a brief stop at Ni’ihau and headed north to look for the western end of a northwest passage from the North Atlantic to the Pacific. Almost one year later, Cook’s two ships returned to the Hawaiian Islands and found a safe harbor in Hawaii’s Kealakekua Bay.

It is suspected that the Hawaiians attached religious significance to the first stay of the Europeans on their islands. In Cook’s second visit, there was no question of this phenomenon. Kealakekua Bay was considered the sacred harbor of Lono, the fertility god of the Hawaiians, and at the time of Cook’s arrival the locals were engaged in a festival dedicated to Lono. Cook and his compatriots were welcomed as gods and for the next month exploited the Hawaiians’ good will. After one of the crewmen died, exposing the Europeans as mere mortals, relations became strained. On February 4, 1779, the British ships sailed from Kealakekua Bay, but rough seas damaged the foremast of the Resolution, and after only a week at sea the expedition was forced to return to Hawaii.

The Hawaiians greeted Cook and his men by hurling rocks; they then stole a small cutter vessel from the Discovery. Negotiations with King Kalaniopuu for the return of the cutter collapsed after a lesser Hawaiian chief was shot to death and a mob of Hawaiians descended on Cook’s party. The captain and his men fired on the angry Hawaiians, but they were soon overwhelmed, and only a few managed to escape to the safety of the Resolution. Captain Cook himself was killed by the mob. A few days later, the Englishmen retaliated by firing their cannons and muskets at the shore, killing some 30 Hawaiians. The Resolution and Discovery eventually returned to England.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Jim.
What was interesting is that an old Newcastle coal barge was used by Captain Cook for its spaciousness, that it survived and was used in the American war of Independence; then sunk by the British to blockade New York, I'd have thought it would have gone back on the coal trade. Be interesting to see what they can salvage.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

We haver his cottage here in Melbourne brought out brick by brick and rebuilt. Now we want his ship back so those bloody yanks better think twice about keeping it.