HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a Royal
Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his
first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from
1769 to 1771. Launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke,
she was purchased by the Navy in 1768 for a scientific mission
to the Pacific Ocean, and to explore the seas for the surmised
Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land".
Renamed and commissioned as His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour’s
end came in August 1778, when the British settlement at Narragansett
Bay was threatened by a fleet carrying French soldiers in support
of the colonial militia.
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