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The bones of Endeavour --off Newport. Maybe.
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 17, 11:19 -0500
There has been reasonable speculation by maritime historians for
several years now that one of the ships sunk in 1778 in the blockade of
Newport, Rhode Island during the American Revolution was the "Lord
Sandwich" which had formerly been HMS Endeavour, Captain Cook's famous
ship of exploration. Marine archeologists have now located the remains
of six 18th century ships in about the place where the blockade ships
would have been scuttled. Maybe one of them is all that is left of the
Endeavour. Unfortunately, with present science, we may never know. But
it's fun anyway...
This link will find some news stories (at least for the next few days):
http://news.google.com/news?q=endeavour+newport
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From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 17, 11:19 -0500
There has been reasonable speculation by maritime historians for
several years now that one of the ships sunk in 1778 in the blockade of
Newport, Rhode Island during the American Revolution was the "Lord
Sandwich" which had formerly been HMS Endeavour, Captain Cook's famous
ship of exploration. Marine archeologists have now located the remains
of six 18th century ships in about the place where the blockade ships
would have been scuttled. Maybe one of them is all that is left of the
Endeavour. Unfortunately, with present science, we may never know. But
it's fun anyway...
This link will find some news stories (at least for the next few days):
http://news.google.com/news?q=endeavour+newport
-FER
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