A Group of Family Trees of people associated with James Cook

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Lin Sherwood-Page
Is there any information about midshipman Joseph Price 2nd/3rd voyage HMS Resolution. Thomas Price 3rd voyage HMS Resolution.
Cliff Thornton
Hello Lin, regarding Joseph Price, he only sailed on the 2nd voyage. enlisting on 17 December 1771 as a 20 year old midshipman from Westminster, London. John Elliott describes Price as "unsteady and drinks". Price kept a log and a journal of the voyage which are both held at The National Archives, Kew. He subsequently had a career in the Royal Navy becoming a Lieutenant in 1777, and a superannuated commander in 1811.
Cliff Thornton
Hi Lin, regarding Thomas Price, I have not been able to find any information about where he came from, only that he was 22 years old when he enlisted on Resolution on 14th March 1776. He must have made a good impression as within several days he was appointed to the post of Armourer's mate. He was punished twice during the voyage, once for going absent without leave, and once for theft. There is no record of him after, the Resolution returned to England.
AURA Gisette Quinto Rodriguez
Good morning, where did cook publishes his firts voyage to Australia. So that jevwas granted the opportunity to be firts reporting Australia
Cliff Thornton
Hello Aura, you may be surpised to learn that Captain Cook never wrote any account of Australia for publication! The Admiralty, who had sponsored his first voyage of exploration, asked a well known writer, John Hawkesworth, to produce the official account of the voyage. Hawkesworth was provided with copies of the journals of Captain Cook and Joseph Banks and wrote his own interpretation of the voyage based on what he read in the journals. The book was a runaway success, but Cook considered it to be so inaccurate that he obtained the Admiralty's position to write the authorised account of his second voyage.