Archaeology

THE wreck of Captain James Cook’s famed vessel the “Endeavour” has been found off the coast of the US state of Rhode Island, Australian researchers said on Thursday. However, their US research partners have described the announcement as premature.

The Endeavour, which the British explorer sailed in an historic voyage to Australia and New Zealand between 1768 and 1771, was scuttled in Newport Harbour during the American War of Independence. For more than two centuries, it lay forgotten.