We chat to three climate scientists from the University of New South Wales about how they talk to their kids about the climate crisis. From there they sailed west to the Dutch colony of Batavia for repairs, before making the long journey home. A surprising chain of events saw it caught up in the — American War of Independence, and it eventually ended up on the murky sea floor of a historic harbour in Rhode Island, USA, where what remains of it still resides.
Between and , the Royal Navy used Endeavour to shuttle goods and troops to the British garrison on the Falkland Islands, off Argentina. The French had by then entered the war on the side of the Americans, and with a fleet of their warships poised to take Newport, Lord Sandwich was among 13 vessels deliberately sunk in formation by the British to block access to the harbour. She looks out at buoys bobbing in the wide, grey expanse of the harbour.
A suspension bridge stretches across Narragansett Bay behind her. There are more than historic wrecks in this important colonial harbour. She was not seeking Endeavour — in fact, as an American, it was barely on her radar. But once the Australian enthusiasts presented her with the first clue that Endeavour might lie among the 13 vessels RIMAP was investigating, she pulled together a small amount of money to get to London.
There, she found the chain of evidence to prove that Lord Sandwich was the same vessel that had been around the world with Cook in — In the 18th century it was very common to rename vessels, as Mather did with Endeavour after he purchased it.
Indeed, that was the second time the vessel had been renamed — its life began in in Whitby, Yorkshire, as the Earl of Pembroke, where it toiled as a collier transporting coal. After the outbreak of war in the American colonies in , the British government was desperate for civilian ships to help it transport troops to quash the rebellion.
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