HM Bark Endeavour

A cat-built, barque-rigged ship built in 1764 in Whitby as the Earl of Pembroke.

Registered dimensions: 97'7"½×29'3"×11'4", burthen 368 71/94 tons.

1764: Launched at the shipyard of Messrs. Fishburn, Whitby.
1768 October 31: Purchased by the Navy Board from the owner Mr Thomas Milner for £ 2840. 10s. 11d and was renamed Endeavour.
1768 August 26: Sailed from Plymouth under Captain James Cook.
1771 July 13: Arrived at the Downs.
1774 September: Paid off and to be fitted out as a storeship.
1775 March 7: Sold out of service for £ 645.
1790: Bought by Mr W. Hayden and re-named La Liberté and put under French colours.

Select Bibliography:

Kit Review: HMS Endeavour 1768, by Tridente Models.
Model Shipwright Vol. 9, London, 1980-81. pp 34:35-37, ill.
Brock, P.W.: Cook's Endeavour and Other Ships.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 54, London, 1968. pp 194-195.
Edson, Merritt A.: Endeavour, Bark.
Nautical Research Journal vol. 22, Silver Spring, 1976; pp 151-153, ill.
Hinchcliffe, Brian: HM Bark Endeavour.
Model Shipwright Vol. 13, London, 1984-85. pp 10-15,105-112, ill.
Howse, Derek: The Principal Scientific Instruments taken on Captain Cook's Voyages of Eploration, 1768-80.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 65, London, 1979. pp 119-135, ill.
A shortened version of this paper was read at the XIIIth International Congress of the History of Science, Moscow, August 1971.
Knight, C.: H.M. Bark Endeavour.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 19, London, 1933. pp 292-302, 5 plates.
Lewis, Brenda Ralph: Explorer's Ships.
Ships Monthly vol. 12, Burton-on-Trent, 1977. pp 3:21-23, ill.
Lightley, R.A.: Classic Ships No 3: Endeavour.
Model Shipwright Vol. 6, London, 1977-78. pp 24:58-63, ill.
McGowan, A.P.: Captain Cook's Ships.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 65, London, 1979. pp 109-118, ill.
Marquardt, Karl Heinz: H.M. Bark Endeavour. What Do We Really Know about the Ship?
Nautical Research Journal Vol. 35, Gloucester, 1990. pp 28-41, ill.
Morris, R.O.: Surveying Ships of the Royal Navy from Cook to the Computer Age.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 72, London, 1986. pp 385-410, ill.
Roberts, J.E.: The Endeavour.
Mariner's Mirror Vol. 53, London, 1967. p 370.
Shirley, Ann: H.M.S. Endeavour and the Falklands.
The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 70, London, 1984. pp 95-95.
Speer, J.A. & Villiers, Alan: Cook's Endeavour.
Mariner's Mirror Vol. 53, London, 1967. pp 183-184.
Wallert, Evert: James Cooks första expedition.
Rospiggen Nr 29, Elmsta, 1968. pp 133-139.

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