Back to Main menu What to watch Film news. Get the latest TV and entertainment news direct to your inbox Thanks! Sign me up! All about Endeavour. Subscribe today. Promoted by RadioTimes. Read More. A suspension bridge stretches across Narragansett Bay behind her. There are more than historic wrecks in this important colonial harbour. She was not seeking Endeavour — in fact, as an American, it was barely on her radar. But once the Australian enthusiasts presented her with the first clue that Endeavour might lie among the 13 vessels RIMAP was investigating, she pulled together a small amount of money to get to London.
There, she found the chain of evidence to prove that Lord Sandwich was the same vessel that had been around the world with Cook in — In the 18th century it was very common to rename vessels, as Mather did with Endeavour after he purchased it.
Indeed, that was the second time the vessel had been renamed — its life began in in Whitby, Yorkshire, as the Earl of Pembroke, where it toiled as a collier transporting coal. After the outbreak of war in the American colonies in , the British government was desperate for civilian ships to help it transport troops to quash the rebellion. Endeavour was tendered for consideration but initially rejected.
Whether it was that or the repairs that eventually swung it, the ship was accepted for service in February and three months later was carrying more than Hessians on a crossing to the Americas. There are several reasons why this information was lost in the mists of time. For a start, when Lord Sandwich arrived in Rhode Island, people may have had no idea it was the vessel that had sailed to Australia — the 18th-century equivalent of having flown to the Moon.
Things were valued differently then. The ship itself was more incidental. The fact significant ships sometimes dropped into obscurity, combined with confusion made by frequent renaming, creates a mess for modern historians to unravel. In this case, the research proved that the stern post on display at the ANMM was not that of Endeavour, but instead belonged to Resolution. Endeavour was in Newport and might be found made her persevere. That was 20 years ago. For 16 years, they did work to pick away at which of the 13 might be Endeavour, but progress was slow — dives are restricted to short summer seasons and RIMAP is a volunteer organisation that scrapes by on small grants and donations.
In the s, it was standard after a scuttling for a surveyor to record the precise locations of where ships went down.
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