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1:50 HMS ENDEAVOURHeigth: 73cmLength: 89cmWidth: 18cmScale: 1:50HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark
Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy 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 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 largelyuncharted 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 discovered. 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.
Huom! Painike, joka näyttää koko kuvauksen on pelkästään visuaalinen.
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| Ilmoituksen tunnus | 41478846 |
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| Viimeksi muokattu | 15.5.2026 klo 14.58 |
