Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Glyn Williams investigates the standards he set in maritime exploration. The three major voyages of ...

Experts have finally confirmed that a shipwreck off the coast of Rhode Island is the wreckage of Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour. Also known as the HMB Endeavour and the Lord Sandwich, the ship was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have confirmed that the 18th-century British explorer Captain James Cook's lost ship found its final resting place in ...

The answer to a centuries-old nautical mystery is sitting at the bottom of the waters off Rhode Island, scientists confirm. The ship that legendary explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the ...

A talk in celebration of World Oceans Day will present a modern perspective of Captain James Cook. Hampton Sides, an historian, author and journalist, will deliver a talk in the Tradewinds Auditorium ...

The remains of captain Cook’s ship, HMS Endeavour, has been located off the US coast after sinking 250 years ago. Between 1768 and 1771, the ship became the first European vessel to reach eastern ...