Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

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Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Post by shipstamps » Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:36 pm

On 26 August 1768 Lieutenant James Cook headed His Majesty's barque Endeavour, a converted Whitby collier crammed with 94 sailors and scientists, out of Portsmouth harbour. The purpose of Cook's voyage to the South Seas was to observe the transit of Venus from the vantage point of Tahiti and then to search the uncharted seas of the south Pacific for the undiscovered, and mythical, 'great south land'. Cook had many advantages that his predecessors had lacked. The British had discovered how to ward off scurvy, which had caused the painful deaths of so many long distance sailors. He was also equipped with a newly developed and highly accurate chronometer which allowed him to know with precision the longitudinal position of his ship.
After spending three and a half months in Tahiti, Cook sailed in search of the great south land. Despite venturing as far as 40 degrees south, where the seas tested the temper of the sailors and the sturdiness of the Endeavour, Cook failed to find it and turned towards the coast of New Zealand where he spent six months charting the coastline. He then headed for the replenishment port of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies by way of the east coast of New Holland. After sighting the south-east corner of New Holland, Cook sailed north along the coast searching for a suitable place to land to collect fresh water and wood. After two days he chanced upon a "Bay which appear'd to be tolerably well shelter'd from all winds". Cook's experience on the shores of' this bay, which he named Botany Bay because of its "great quantity of New Plants", provided such a stark contrast to the experience of Dampier that it convinced a later English government to establish a settlement there.


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ENDEAVOUR (50c) Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand was made in the ENDEAVOUR. He sailed from England in August 1768 and his first landfall in 1769 was Poverty Bay on the east coast of the North Island.
The ship was a typical East Coast Collier, square rigged on all three masts with a spanker sail. It was bought by the British Navy specifically for the Cook voyage, accomodation was installed for the scientific party.
She was not a fast ship - her fastest speed was 8 knots running with the wind - but she had the advantage of being careened and beached easily for repairs; a most necessary feature for ships making such long voyages.
After the historic Cook voyage to New Zealand she was refitted and made four voyages to the Falkland Islands before being sold by the British Navy in 1775.
Log Book April 1990
New Zealand SG1542

Australia SG1511, 459-63,464 St Helena SG769, Tuvalu SG833, South Africa SG1114
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Re: Endeavour HMS 1764

Post by john sefton » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:09 pm

Built 1764 by Fishburn, Whitby.
Six guns.
Dim 97'8"x81'x11'4".
Men 85. Guns 6x6pdr also 8 (later 4) x1/2pdr swivels.
Purchased 29.3.1768 (from Thos Milner for £2,212.15.6 for hull, + £56.17.10 for masts and spars). Reg 5.4.1768. Fitted at Deptford (for£5,394.15.4)1.4-20.7.1768.
Commissioned May 1768 under Lieut. James cook (-1771; sailed on his first voyage 26.7.1768; returned 12.6.1771 and paid off Aug 1771. Refitted at Deptford (for £2,615.0.8)7-10.1771.
Recommissioned Aug1771 under James Gordon (-1774); sailed for Falklands Is 8.11.1771. Refitted at Deptford (for £1,248.10.2)9-11.1772; sailed for North America 3.12.1772. Paid off Sept 1773.
Fitted as Store Ship (under AO22.11.1773) at Deptford (for £1,495.6.11)11-12.1773; recommissioned Nov 1773 (still under Gordon); sailed for North America 29.1.1774; paid off Oct 1774. Soldat Woolwich (for £645) 7.3.1775.
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792 by Rif Winfield
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Re: Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Post by Arturo » Sat Nov 22, 2014 8:43 pm

HMS Endeavour

Samoa I Sisifo 1970, S.G.?, Scott: 332.
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Re: Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Post by Arturo » Tue Apr 21, 2015 8:11 pm

Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Gilbert Islands 1979, S.G.?, Scott: 321.
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Re: Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue May 24, 2016 1:44 am

Republic Democratic du Congo ? 25FC sg?, scott? (Fake or stamp??)
Australia 2001 $1.50 sg?, scott?
Sweden 2001 8kr sg?, scott?
French Polynesia 1968 60f sg?, scott?
Ciskei 1993 65c sg 223, scott 204.
St Tome et Principe 2018 Db31.00 sg?, scott? and MS sgMS?, scott?
Maldives 2018 20MVR sg?, Scott?

New Zealand 1906 3d sg372, Scott? by this stamp is given: The dual color three penny stamp depicts the landing of Captain Cook. on his first voyage to New Zealand; at Poverty Bay on the east coast of the North Island on the 7th of October 1769. This first meeting led to the deaths of six local Maori during skirmishes with the crew, due to a misinterpretation of the traditional Maori challenge. Cook was unable to gain many of the provisions he and his crew needed at the bay, and for this reason gave it its name.

Comoro Island 1992 75F sg 803, scott 790
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Re: Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Post by Anatol » Tue Mar 14, 2017 7:27 pm

Endeavour HMS 1764
Djibouti 2015;1200f.
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Re: Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:57 pm

The stamp shows us Captain Cook in Australia with in the background HMS ENDEAVOUR during the flag hoisting, when Cook claims the country for Great Britain.

This is an engraving by Samuel Calvert of an oil painting which was exhibited at the 1866─1867 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition. The original painting, made by John Alexander Gilfillan once in the collection of the Royal Society of Victoria, is now lost. The Union Flag depicted in the illustration is an anachronism. It is a flag used after the union with Ireland in 1801, not the flag of 1770. Also, the ceremony being recorded actually took place on Possession Island; the artist seems to have erroneously depicted the scene at Botany Bay

Wikipedia give for this landing:
During his first voyage of discovery, British explorer, then Lieutenant James Cook sailed northwards along the east coast of Australia, landing at Botany Bay. Reaching the tip of Queensland, he named and landed on Possession Island, just before sunset on 22 August 1770, and declared the coast British territory in the name of King George III. Cook wrote in his journal: "I now once more hoisted English Coulers and in the Name of His Majesty King George the Third took possession of the whole Eastern Coast...by the name New South Wales, together with all the Bays, Harbours Rivers and Islands situate upon the said coast."

Wikipedia gives for Botany Bay:
Lieutenant James Cook first landed at Kurnell, on the southern banks of Botany Bay, on Sunday 29 April 1770, when navigating his way up the east coast of Australia on his ship, HMS ENDEAVOUR. Cook's landing marked the beginning of Britain's interest in Australia and in the eventual colonisation of this new ‘southern continent’. Initially the name Sting Ray Harbour was used by Cook and other journal keepers on his expedition, for the stingrays they caught. That name was also recorded on an Admiralty chart. Cook's log for 6 May 1770 records "The great quantity of these sort of fish found in this place occasioned my giving it the name of Stingrays Harbour". However, in the journal prepared later from his log, Cook wrote instead: (sic) "The great quantity of plants Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the name of Botanist Botany Bay"

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Jersey 1984 31p sg349, scott?
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Re: Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Tue Apr 03, 2018 6:43 pm

New Caledonia 1974, 20 Fr. St.G.539
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Re: Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Post by john sefton » Wed Aug 22, 2018 4:09 pm

New stamps issued by GB August 2018.
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Re: Endeavour HMS 1764 (Cook)

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Oct 25, 2019 7:04 pm

250 years of James Cook’s arrival and his encounter with Tupaia

The British navigator and explorer was born in Marton, England in 1728. At the age of 18, COOK entered the merchant navy, and took advantage of his years of commerce to study mathematics, trigonometry, navigation and astronomy. Quickly, he accesses command of a Royal Navy ship. In 1768,

The Royal Society entrusted him with the exploration of the South Pacific Ocean and the study of the transit of Venus from Tahiti. His first trip around the world will last three years on board the HMB ENDEAVOUR with a hundred men, including several scientists. He left Plymouth harbour in august 1768 and crossed Cape Horn in January 1769 to enter the Pacific and arrived in Tahiti on April 12th, 1769. He built a fort in Matavai Bay to observe the transit of Venus, now known as Venus Point, in the municipality of Mahina. This three month stay also allowed valuable discoveries by scientists Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson as in particular the importance of the Uru (fruit of the bread tree).
He met Tupaia, a scholar Polynesian from Raiatea, son of Ari'i (chief and notable), who had a perfect grasp of the navigation techniques inherited from the elders, also tahu'a (priest), linguist, artist and warrior of his island.

Fascinated by his navigational knowledge, botanist Joseph Banks insisted that Tupaia board the ENDEAVOUR to continue this tour of the world. Onboard, Tupaia, who had memorized the mapping of the entire Polynesian triangle (several times equivalent to the surface of Europe) tells James Cook the direction to the New Zealand, which they reach in October 1769. Thanks to the diplomacy of Tupaia, character recognized as tahu'a native of the sacred island of Raiatea, Cook was able to
realize during several months, numerous discoveries.
Tupaia also represents for Maori the reconnection with these islands of Polynesia from where their canoes had left several decades previously. After the passage in New Zealand, James Cook’s boat resumes the trip by goes along the Australian coast, then Indonesian and Tupaia died in Batavia (Jakarta) from the consequences of disease in 1770. Captain Cook’s "Ma'ohi" journey person, Tupaia, is still a landmark figure in the history of the New Zealand Maori. Its arrival 250 years ago will be commemorated throughout 2019, with the gathering of all the traditional canoes of the different tribes in the waters of the capital, Wellington.

A canoe from Tahiti will take part in the festivities. After this first crossing, James COOK will carry out two other expeditions in the Pacific and tragically died in 1779, during a dispute with natives of the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).

https://www.tahitiphilatelie.pf/details ... 019&id=353
French Polynesia 2019 250F sgMS?, scott?
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