Endeavour
On the show — 8 mentions total
The Endeavour was actually two ships in a way. It was renamed and repurposed — it became the Lord's Sandwich and took part in the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776. It's one of the largest ships used there, and we only found out in the 1990s that that was the same ship.
from 247: No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea, 2018-12-14 at 00:06:29 · read transcript
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Why do we call him Captain Cook when he wasn't a captain? I don't know. He wasn't a cook either. That man's a fraud. I assumed he was a naval captain. He was a lieutenant when he was on Endeavour. Then when he came back to England, he was given the rank of commander. Then by 1775 he became a post-captain, which was even better than a captain, but he was never actually a captain. That's so funny. Yeah.
247: No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea, 2018-12-14 · listen
A question to ask a man who's written off of atlifes and maps. How do we know where any of these people went? Footprints in the sea. Footprints in the sea. I've been reading about the ship itself, the Endeavour. This is a very famous ship, but it was such an unglamorous ship. It was a coal carrying ship, which is not very glam. It wasn't very fast. It could only go about six or seven knots at nautical miles an hour.
No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea, 2018-12-14 · listen
It's full of maps. A question to ask a man who's written off of atlases and maps. How do we know where any of the people went? It doesn't make any sense. I've been reading about the ship itself, the Endeavour. This is a very famous ship, but it was such an unglamorous ship. It was a coal carrying ship, which is not, you know, very glam. It wasn't very fast.
247: No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea, 2018-12-14 · listen
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247: No Such Thing As Footprints On The Sea put 4 places on the map.
- Whale Island · New Zealand
- Indianapolis · United States
- Covent Garden · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 28.5728, -80.6489