Scuttling
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A ship is scuttled when its crew deliberately sinks it, typically by opening holes in its hull.
A sunken ship at Sevastopol, 1858
Merrimack alight on 20 April 1861
The wreck of USS Merrimac
HMS Endeavour
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HMS Endeavour was a British 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 c. 1794
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