CAPTAIN COOK'S OLD SHIP.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 12 April 1901, Page 4

CAPTAIN COOK'S OLD SHIP.

The statement of Mr William Booth, at the conference of local bodies, that it was the intention of tho Wellington Harbour Board to present to the Duke and Duchess of York an address framed in a piece of the hull of Captain Cook's Endeavour, has caused some surprise, remarks the "Post." The piece of timber to bo used for the purpose indicated by Mr Booth was, we understand, obtained from an old ship named the Endeavour, who bones repose in Dusky Sound. An erroneous impression has prevailed that this .Endeavour was tho great circumnavigator's vessel. But it was long ago proved that the Dusky Sound Endeavour was a vessel of 800 tons, commanded by Captain Brampton, which sprang a leak whilst on a voyage from Sydney to India, and was scuttled in the Sound somewhere about the year 1792. Captain Cook's Endeavour ended its days in Newport, Bhode's Island (CJ.S.A.). After the return of Cook's first expedition into southern seas, tho Endeavour was condemned by the Admiralty. Afterwards she passed into the hands of French speculators, who fitted her out a 3 a whaler, and she roamed the seas thenceforward under a new name, La Libeite. About the time of the French Revolution she was chased into Newport by a British man-o'-war She never again left the harbour, but was condemned a 3 unseawarthy, dismantled, and sold.