For more than 250 years, nobody knew exactly where Captain James Cook's famous ship, HM Bark Endeavour, had ended its journey. The vessel is famous for carrying Cook on his historic Pacific voyage between 1768 and 1771. After returning to England, however, the ship quietly entered a new chapter of its life, serving as a transport vessel before being renamed Lord Sandwich. In 1778, during the American War of Independence, it was deliberately sunk in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, as part of a defensive blockade.
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