HMS Endeavour
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HMS Endeavour was a Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.
HMS Endeavour off the coast of New Holland by Samuel Atkins
Earl of Pembroke, later HMS Endeavour, leaving Whitby Harbour in 1768. By Thomas Luny, dated 1790.
An 1893 chart showing Endeavour's track
Tile on street depicting HMS Endeavour. Cooktown. 2005
Barque
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A barque or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost mast is rigged fore and aft. So
HMS Endeavour
…with a set of 28 ft (8.5 m) sweeps to allow her to be rowed forward if becalmed or demasted. The refitted vessel was commissioned as His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour, to distinguish her from the four-gun cutter HMS Endeavour. On 21 July 1768, Endeavour sailed to Gallions Reach on the Thames to take on…
Three-masted barque (US Revenue Cutter Salmon P. Chase, 1878–1907)
The tall ship Elissa is a three-masted barque in Galveston.
Russian Sedov at the Kantasatama Harbour in Kotka, Finland, during the Tall Ships’ Races 2017
A 1993 replica of HM Bark Endeavour