The Australian National Maritime Museum released confirmation on June 4, 2025, that a shipwreck site known as RI 2394 in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, is the remains of Captain Cook’s HM Bark Endeavour.
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00:30We will never find anything on this site that screams Endeavour.
00:42We will never find a sign saying Cook was here.
00:45We will never see a ship's bell with Endeavour crossed out
00:48and Lord Sandwich inscribed on it.
00:51It's an interesting process.
00:52Archaeology is an interesting process.
00:53And it's a process where we call the preponderance of evidence,
00:57where we've got a whole series of things pointing to RI-2394 as being HMB Endeavour.
01:05And so far, we've found lots of things that tick the box for it to be Endeavour
01:09and nothing on the site which says it's not.
01:16The National Maritime Museum became involved in the hunt for HMB Endeavour relatively early on.
01:21There was two historians in Australia, Des Lydie and Mike O'Connell.
01:25They had actually figured out that HMB Endeavour had become a vessel called the Lord Sandwich
01:32and had been lost off the coast of America during the American Revolutionary War.
01:39An historian in Rhode Island, a woman by the name of Dr. Kathy Abbas,
01:45she was investigating a series of shipwrecks in Newport, Rhode Island.
01:49Those wrecks were associated with the siege of Newport in 1778.
01:55One of those wrecks was a vessel called the Lord Sandwich
01:59and she had read the article by Des Lydie and she thought,
02:02hey, I wonder if it's the same vessel.
02:04And in 1999, an archaeologist from the National Maritime Museum, Paul Hundley,
02:09went across to Newport, Rhode Island to meet with Kathy Abbas
02:13and talked to her about the possibility of the museum becoming involved in the hunt
02:18for HMB Endeavour.
02:20And so that's where I got involved.
02:22In 2000, I went across the pool
02:24and we've been involved in the hunt for the Lord Sandwich wreck,
02:28ex-HMB Endeavour, in Newport since that time.
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