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Captain James Cook's Ship May Have Been Found

posted by martyb on Wednesday May 04 2016, @02:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the sudo-make-me-a-[Lord]-sandwich dept.

butthurt writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Nuke on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:09PM

    by Nuke (3162) on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:09PM (#341586)

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:13PM

    by dyingtolive (952) on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:13PM (#341588)

    I know the story. My comment was just an attempt at humor. Sadly, it seems like it turned quite stale.

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    • (Score: 2) by arulatas on Wednesday May 04 2016, @07:18PM

      by arulatas (3600) on Wednesday May 04 2016, @07:18PM (#341638)

      Perhaps you had to much ham in it.

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