Captain James Cook & the HM Bark Endeavour
England's greatest Mariner, Explorer and Navigator
Captain James Cook RN ( 728-1779 )
Overlooking Whitby harbour from where he sailed in 1746
And Overlooking Great Ayton Village Green from where he played as a Boy
Mr Pullen's Old Schoolhouse. Capt. Cook Monument - Gribdale
The Replica H.M Bark Endeavour
The original Bark Endeavour ( formerly the Earl of Pembroke) was a converted collier built by Fishburn's of Whitby,
A "bark", so far as the Endeavour was concerned', meant a "cat" or apple-bowed boat of shallow draught with incomplete mizzen rigging. The original cost of the Endeavour was £ 2,840 and with further re-fits the costs totalled £ 11,798.At the age of seven years she was sold for £ 645 in 1775. Renamed the 'Earl of Sandwich' she sank whilst loaded with a cargo of oil in Newport
A two week Tourist Attraction - Middlehaven October 2003
The bark Endeavour's Ship's Bell
A couple of the Ship's Cannon
The 'Great Cabin' and Joseph Bank's writing desk.
Herman Sporing's cabin
The 'Mess Deck' tables
The Endeavour' carried enough provisions for 94 crew and a 18 month' Voyage
Starboard Aft window in the 'Great Cabin'
Captain Chris Blake OBE Ian Stubbs as Capt. Cook
Berthed at Middlehaven
The Crew furling the Sails
Cannon Fire announce the Departure
Further cannon as darkness falls
Slipping out Of Middlehaven Middlesbrough
Into the darkness and towards Teesmouth
Arrival into Whitby March 31st.2004
Approaching the Inner Harbour
Coming Home !!
Just coming through the Swing Bridge
Preparing to Moor Up !
Same Ship - Same Day
The Departure April 2004
Did they aim at me, I wonder ?
Across the Outer Harbour
With a final Cannon as she heads for the Open Sea.
Burial place of James Cook Snr.
Seven years after James Cook's mother Grace died, his father,James Cook Snr, went to live with his daughter Margaret who lived in a cottage in Back Lane ( Lord St.) Redcar. North Yorkshire.
James Cook Snr, Margaret and her husband ( a local fisherman ) are all buried in the St Germains Graveyard, Marske on Sea.
James Cook Snr, died in April 1779 not knowing that his son had been killed in Hawaii two months earlier. His body was taken along the beach from Redcar to Marske and buried in Saint Germains graveyard
There are no direct descendants of Cook bearing his name as his sons died unmarried and his two surviving siblings were sisters
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