HMS endeavour

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36" long x 12" Wide x 28" High
Requires 350 - 400 hours to build from scratch
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INFORMATION

endeavour MODELS

36" long x 12" Wide x 28" High (1:48 scale)
required over 350 hours to build (400+ FOR SPECIAL)

GENERAL MODEL INFO

Plank on bulkhead construction (a painstaking process where each
individual plank is added to the hull one at a time).
Built with rare, high quality woods such as light ebony,
rosewood and blackwood.
The model rests perfectly on a large, polished base
between four arched dolphins.
Masterfully stitched canvas sails.
No plastic parts (metal anchors and machine turned brass cannons.
Significant deck detail.
To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such
as museums, drawings, copies of original plans

endeavour HISTORY

In 1768 Lieutenant James Cook, Royal Navy, set sail on HMS Endeavour on a
voyage of exploration and scientific discovery. So successful was he that
Cook has gone down in history as one of the great explorers.

In 1770 Cook reached New Zealand where he circumnavigated and
completely charted the north and south islands before continuing west. In
April, he sighted the east coast of Australia and sailed north along the
coast before anchoring in what he named Botany Bay. He then continued
north to Cape York and on to Jakarta and Indonesia. During the voyage
along the coast Cook charted the coastline from Victoria to Queensland
and claimed the eastern part of the continent for Great Britain.

Cook was the first person to accurately chart a substantial part of the
coastline of Australia and to fix the continent in relation to a known datum.
His explorations of Australia were followed up within a few years by a
British expedition to settle the "new" continent. Numerous places in
Australia, particularly on the east Australian coast and New Zealand, have
been named after him or his vessel, and many of the names he gave to parts of
the Australian east coast in 1770 are still used (e.g. Cape Tribulation,
Botany Bay).

Cook's 1768-1771 voyage in HMS Endeavour is also considered to be of
general historical importance because of its great contributions to the
world's knowledge of seamanship and navigation, as well as geography. On
his voyages Cook became the first captain to calculate his longitudinal
position with accuracy, using a complex mathematical formula developed in
the 1760's. He was also the first to substantially reduce scurvy among his
crew, a serious, sometimes fatal result of dietary deficiency on long
voyages –
a discovery which led to us being christened Limey’s by our faithful
allies in the USA.