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· Collier Earl of Pembroke launched
· Transported coal between XXX and London
· Acquired by the Royal Navy and refitted
· Renamed 'HMB Endeavour'
· Departed for Plymouth in August
· Arrived Tahiti and observed the Transit of Venus
· Charted New Zealand
· Botany Bay/Kamay – April 29
· Hits Great Barrier Reef on June 11
· Batavia - October
· Arrives Dover July 12 and refitted
· Troops and cargo transported England to Falklands, timber transported to and from the Baltic
· Renamed 'Lord Sandwich'
· Reacquired by British Navy
· Transported troops for American War of Independence
· Scuttled in blockade at Rhode Island
Welcome to Deep Dive, the Australian National Maritime Museum’s hub of maritime archaeological research. For over twenty years our curators of maritime archaeology have been involved in the study of the human past and people’s interaction with oceans, lakes, rivers – anything dealing with the maritime world. We study historic shipwrecks, jetties, wharves and inundated landscapes – all of these things where people interact with water.
This website is dedicated to this research. Here you will find stories, articles, videos and experiments that all relate to our maritime research. This website will build over time and we launch with our first story, the announcement that the wreck of the HM Bark Endeavour (Lord Sandwich) is confirmed to be located off the coast of Rhode Island in the USA.