Final resting place of James Cook’s Endeavour confirmed by National Maritime Museum

HM Bark Endeavour. James Cook began his Pacific voyage on what would become one of the world’s most famous ships, in 1768. Photograph: David Knight

More than two and a half centuries after Capt James Cook arrived in Australia on the HM Bark Endeavour, the Australian National Maritime Museum has published its final report on the ship’s resting place.

The museum published a preliminary report in 2022 that a wreck in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island was the Lord Sandwich, which was previously known as the Endeavour.