The Fate of Cook's Ships

What happened to the ships that Cook sailed in is not well documented, leading to much speculation.

Some of it has been aired in the pages of our journal Cook's Log.

1987	The Fate of the Endeavour	How she ended her days at Newport, Rhode Island, USA
1996	What Do We Know About The Endeavour?	Books and articles about her
1997	What Do We Know About The Endeavour? - Part 1	Did she end up at the bottom of an American harbour?
	What Do We Know About The Endeavour? - Part 2	Or did she house female convicts on the River Thames in England?
1998	What Do We Know About Cook's Ships?	What happened to his four ships,plus   the confusion between the fate of the Endeavour and Resolution, and   the confusion between the fate of Cook's Discovery and Vancouver's Discovery
1999	Archaeologist Traces Capt. Cook's Ship	The first results of some under water investigation of a dozen transport vessels scuttled by the fleeing British in the Revolutionary War.
	Exploring the Possible Remains of the Endeavour	The work of the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) on two of the transports
2001	Exploring the Possible Remains of the Endeavour	The study of the first transport site has been completed
	Exploring the Possible Remains of the Endeavour	An update on the work by RIMAP and the formation of the Foundation for the Preservation of Captain Cook's Ships
2002	Exploring the Possible Remains of the Endeavour	A report on a visit to the waters of Newport Harbour where the RIMAP team are working
	Cook's Ships - A Summary Update	Summarising the evidence that leads to the conclusion that Endeavour did end her days in Newport Harbour, and not on the Thames plus fresh information about the Resolution

Updated: March 2004