Final resting place of James Cook’s Endeavour confirmed by National Maritime Museum

Director Daryl Karp says museum stands by 2022 conclusion that wreck in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, was the ship Cook sailed to Australia in 1770

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More than two and a half centuries after Capt James Cook arrived in Australia on the HM Bark Endeavour, the Australian National Maritime Museum has published its final report on the ship’s resting place.

The museum published a preliminary report in 2022 that a wreck in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island was the Lord Sandwich, which was previously known as the Endeavour.

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