Marine archaeologists have spent decades looking for this ship 1778 which was sunk by the British in Newport. In order to stop French ships during the American Revolution,
Kathy, Principal Investigator of the Rhode Island Marine Archaeological Project (RIMAP)? Kathy Abbas said that the determination of the sunken ship may depend on the following points, rather than a single archaeological discovery.
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"We don't think we'll find anything that says Captain Cook sleeps here"-it's impossible, "Abbas told Live Science, but if we find something small that we know she is used as a means of transportation and a Newport prison boat, we will know that we have found her.
This is a wooden sample from the keel of the shipwreck in Newport Port. It was collected during the underwater excavation in the past three weeks and is currently being sent to the laboratory for testing. The expected results later this year may show that elm wood is used for construction-another symbol of Cook's efforts, it is considered to have elm keel.
"Everything we have seen this year is consistent with Endeavour. We didn't see anything that said impossible. Abbas said:
1 traveled around the world. Endeavour traveled around the world for the first time from 1768 to 177 1, but it sank in Newport Port at 1778. (National Library of Australia) t.James Cook, the captain and later captain of the Royal Navy, commanded Endeavour, a former coal carrier, which made its first round-the-world voyage from 1768 to 177 1. Its first scientific mission was to take a spaceship to Tahiti in 1769, and let Cook and his crew observe the process of Venus crossing the sun-this planetarium event was also recorded by other observers all over the world.
Cook and Endeavour then explored the South Pacific and mapped the coast of New Zealand. 1770 Before Europe landed in Australia for the first time, in Botany Bay,
Cook focuses on navigation and mapping. The expedition's naturalist joseph banks and eight other scientists recorded hundreds of unknown animal and plant species, including Kanggulu, which was first seen by Europeans.
Related news: After returning to Britain, the Royal Navy sold the Endeavour, thinking it was unfit for further service. It was renamed Lord Sandwich and was used to transport British troops to the American Revolution in 1776.
During the war, the British also used it as a warship near Newport. 1778, in order to prevent the invasion of French warships, Britain sank at least 13 ships in Newport, when France was an ally of American revolutionaries. 1778, Rimapu investigators first discovered this sunken ship in 1993, and it was confirmed that it was one of the ships sunk by Britain. However, they learned in 1999 that according to RIMAP, the ship named "Lord Sandwich" in the sunken fleet was the object of Cook's efforts before.
Because many shipwrecks found in Newport Port are difficult to identify and the funds are limited, the search work is progressing slowly. But she said that investigators are now more confident than ever that they have found the right sunken ship.
The dredger that identified the sunken ship spilled mud from the sunken ship in Xingang Port in the18th century, and it is now considered as the wreckage of Captain Cook's efforts. (james hunter/RIMAP 20 19) For many years, another shipwreck in Newport was considered to be the result of Cook's efforts-Abbas said that a ship named La Liberté had been rotting along the coast for many years.
As part of this effort, the wood found in the shipwreck has traveled all over the world 197 1 year. When the command module was named after Cook's spaceship, a small piece of Apollo 15 even flew. Abbas said that some historians now believe that,
She was the flagship of Cook's second voyage around the world 1772 to 1775. She said that ships from all over the world eventually ran aground in Newport, a few miles away from each other.
It's the latest underwater excavation by Rimapu divers. Maritime museum, Australia and Silentworld Foundation, an Australian non-profit organization, found hundreds of cultural relics from the sunken ship, which are now considered as Endeavour and Sandwich Lord, including sawdust, leather fragments, textiles, glass and ceramics.
RIMAP divers will try to dive deeper into the sunken ship in winter, when the visibility in the waters of Xingang Port is better, and then they hope to resume digging next summer.
Abasi said that archaeologists are concentrating on building the wooden hull of the sunken ship and its later traces, and it is a chef's effort to use it to confirm its identity.
"We can be excited to see that things look promising," she said. "[But] we haven't said it's her yet, but it seems possible," she said.
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