Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Cook ship found on ocean’s floor
Experts close in on voyage-of-discovery vessel Cooking foods from frozen a thaw point
THE ship used by Captain James Cook to sail to Australia is thought to have been found at the bottom of the ocean.
Researchers say they have now narrowed a decades-long search for HMS Endeavour to “one or two archaeological sites”.
The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project has warned it is yet to “definitively” confirm whether the wreck has been located.
But director of the Australian National Maritime Museum Kevin Sumption described the findings as “promising”.
He said divers in the US were currently working to confirm whether one of five shipwrecks is the Endeavour by collecting samples off the east coast.
He said: “We’re carefully gathering very specific samples of timber and we’re going to conduct forensic analysis.
“Most of the ships that were scuttled in Newport in August, 1778, were built of American or Indian timbers, [but] the
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“With some good detective work, we can sample the timbers of this promising site [and] then we might have evidence that this ship is at least British in origin.”
More details of the findings will be released tomorrow, with a three-dimensional image of the site near tiny Goat Island, off the city of Newport, Rhode Island. The vessel, one of the most famous in naval history, was used by Captain Cook on his first voyage of discovery to Australia from 1769 to 1771.
The former coal cargo ship was last seen in 1778. the freezer. But most foods, including chicken breasts, mince and fish are safe.
Two thirds believe not all types of food can be frozen, of the study by Birds Eye revealed. Only eggs cannot.
A Birds Eye spokesman said: “Frozen food is a great way to get a balanced diet.”