HMS endeavor for Captain Cook in the water off Rod Island after decades of research

The researchers confirmed that the British explorer in the eighteenth century Captain James CookThe missing ship found its last location in the port of Rod Island, Nioport, and a puzzle for decades, According to To the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Australian historians, Mike Conel and Deis Lady, set the ship, HMS Endeavor is called In 1998, the museum said in a report issued earlier this month. The museum’s report detailed how 26 -year archaeological research program decided in the end that the endeavor was, in fact, at the bottom of the port of Nioport, as Konel and Lady thought.

Captain Cook, famous in the pioneering endeavor several times in the mid -nineteenth century. He is remembered on his trip to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia, which was called to Britain, as well as Hawaii, where he eventually met his fate in a conflict with the indigenous population. Cook exploration of the islands of British colonialism in those areas, which is the reason, for various reasons, is an important part of Australian history, according to the museum report.

“For some, the James Cook -led journey between 1768 and 171 embodies the spirit of the Enlightenment in Europe,” The executive summary of the report reads, “while symbolizing others to the emergence of colonialism and the news of the peoples of the first nations.”

After the death of Cook, the endeavor returned to England, which continued to use it to transport British forces and detain prisoners during the American revolutionary war. It was sold to the owners of the private sector, who were re -named Sandwich, and was deliberately drowned in the Niobport port in the middle of the war in 1778.

When Australian navy experts Initially announced in 2022 They believed that the endeavor was among a number of wreckage of ancient ships that are still widespread across the port of Nioport, and the claim was widely discussed. But a partnership between the Historical Conservation and Heritage Committee in Rod Island and the Australian National Navy Museum made the research that ultimately determined the identity of the debris. They are working to ensure the protection of the location of the debris from now on.

“Given the historical and cultural importance of Endeavor, ATEAROA New Zeland, England, the United States of America, the report requires that the positive recognition of its shipwreck site requires securing the highest possible level of legislative and physical protection,” the report says.