Reports by AFP via The Guardian , the New York Daily News , The Inquisitr , AAP via News Corp Australia and the Daily Mail say that researchers have found a wreck which they believe is the Lord Sandwich.
Travelling aboard the ship, better known by its original name HMS Endeavour , James Cook became the first European to visit Australia and Hawaii. Later it was sold and renamed. It was believed to have been scuttled along with several other ships in Newport Harbour during the American Revolution in connection with the Battle of Rhode Island. Now researchers with the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project say they have somehow determined with "80 to 100 per cent" certainty which of the wrecks is the Lord Sandwich.
Further details are to be released on 4 May.
A 2006 ABC story has earlier information.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Wednesday May 04 2016, @04:22PM
(Score: 3, Funny) by dyingtolive on Wednesday May 04 2016, @05:42PM
I feel like any sandwich a person could eat would be unimpressive compared with the Lord Sandwich. Probably towers over a Dagwood.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Nuke on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:09PM
Sandwich is a small town in Kent, UK. Lord Sandwich was named after it. The slices of bread snack was named after him; he did not want to stop playing cards for dinner, so he had sandwiches brought to him at the card table.
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:13PM
I know the story. My comment was just an attempt at humor. Sadly, it seems like it turned quite stale.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by arulatas on Wednesday May 04 2016, @07:18PM
Perhaps you had to much ham in it.
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(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 04 2016, @09:34PM
Cook named Hawaii the Sandwich Islands; he named the islands near South Georgia the South Sandwich Islands; and he named Efate, an island that's now part part of Vanuatu, Sandwich Island. The Earl of Sandwich was one of Cook's sponsors.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Tork on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:17PM
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(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Wednesday May 04 2016, @08:45PM
I was greatly enoing TFS until that part.
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(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday May 04 2016, @09:19PM
I'm sorry. That sentence--really the core of what I thought the story was--is mistaken, I'm afraid. The situation seems to be: ships were scuttled in five places, of which four have been mapped. "Remote sensing data," presumably satellite photos, indicate that the fifth group of wrecks may still exist. It's known that the former Endeavour was one of the ships scuttled, but it's not known which group it was in: one of the four that are accounted for, or the fifth that may or may not have drifted off, hence "80 to 100% chance" that it's still in the harbour. Since they don't know what group of ships it's in, they must not know which specific wreck it is. Their home page explains it in their own words:
http://www.rimap.org/SitePages/Home.aspx [rimap.org]
(Score: 2) by ilPapa on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:23PM
it was found in section G out at the mall.
I lose my car there all the time.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 04 2016, @10:29PM
One of the great explorers, in the pantheon with Magellan, but not the first. Not even for New Zealand. A case could be made for Antarctica
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Thursday May 05 2016, @01:05AM
Indeed
"Between 1606 and 1770, an estimated 54 European ships from a range of nations made contact. Many of these were merchant ships from the Dutch East Indies Company and included the ships of Abel Tasman. Tasman charted parts of the north, west and south coasts of Australia which was then known as New Holland."
http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/european-discovery-and-colonisation [australia.gov.au]
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday May 05 2016, @03:38AM
While that's certainly true, he is held in very high regard here in New Zealand, as he mapped the coast so well, we're still using his measurements in our maps.
He also treated the locals with respect, (although relations did not always go smoothly).
Most importantly he was the first to brew beer in New Zealand. [captaincooker.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @07:25AM
Relations on the Big Island of Hawaii went well, too, until they did not. The ship may be in Newport, but Cook is still in some lava tube on the Island of Hawaii.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday May 05 2016, @04:59PM
I think he should be better known for his advancements in nutrition for sailors, helping to prevent scurvy and other scourges of sailors with more varieties of foods added to their diets (sauerkraut for one, although that could lead to another sort of scourge in enclosed sailors quarters).