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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 79. Chapters: Star of India, HMS Endeavour, Pamir, Memnon, USS Nightingale, Potosi, Endurance, Celestial Empire, RV Belgica, USCGC Sea Cloud, Lady Elizabeth, Polly Woodside, Moshulu, Alf, Glenlee, Jeanie Johnston, City of York, Marco Polo, Passat, General Grant, Witch of the Wave, Gorch Fock, Priwall, Herald of the Morning, Barque, Herzogin Cecilie, Ponape, Parma, Syren, Omega, Parmelia, Rickmer Rickmers, Manchester, Dundonald, USS Ino, Pisagua, Sedov, Krusenstern, Race Horse, Peking, Lawhill, Ocean Monarch, James Craig, Sigyn, Blessing of the Bay, Elissa, Alexander von Humboldt, SS Vega, Antoinette, BAE Guayas, Placilla, Belem, Peter Iredale, Viking, Kobenhavn, Clio, Baron of Renfrew, Jackass-barque, INS Tarangini, Falls of Halladale, HMS Jumna, Kings County, Leander, Diana, Pommern, ARM Cuauhtemoc, INS Sudarshini, Santiago, Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Sea Witch, Bruce, French ship Astrolabe, Mircea, Cressy, Dunbrody, SV Tenacious, Volo, Kaskelot, Europa, The Rescue of the Renown, Duke of Roxburgh, Bengalee, Earl of Pembroke, Skjold, James A. Garfield, Catharina, Prince George, Columbia. Excerpt: ) HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British 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, she departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reached Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of Huahine, Borabor...
