Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/captain-cook-missing-ship-found-hms-endeavour-b2771322.html

174•rmason•7mo ago

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duxup•7mo ago

I'm sure the rename had good reason but I can't imagine going from a name like "HMS Endeavour", what a great name, to "Lord Sandwich" ... in modern times that sounds like some lighthearted forum username.

linksnapzz•7mo ago

The HMS Lord Sandwich's namesake is almost certainly former 1st Lord of the Admiralty John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich && person that the dish is actually named after.

jonstewart•7mo ago

He was also head of the British navy ("First Lord of the Admiralty") at the time and a great supporter of Cook's, so there's even a closer connection specific to the Endeavor. Cook named Hawaii the "Sandwich Islands" after him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sand...

westurner•7mo ago

What were the existing names of the islands?

ok_dad•7mo ago

It’s the Hawaiian islands

westurner•7mo ago

Hawaiʻi > Etymology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii#Etymology

cjs_ac•7mo ago

The Earl of Sandwich was not a naval officer; the First Lord of the Admiralty was the chair of the Board of Admiralty, which was a committee formed to undertake the duties of the office of Lord High Admiral. The Board of Admiralty had responsibility for the administration of the Royal Navy. Operational command was (and remains) the responsibility of the Sea Lords; the most senior serving officer of the Royal Navy is the First Sea Lord.

loloquwowndueo•7mo ago

Hey at least it wasn’t Boaty McBoatface

helsinkiandrew•7mo ago

At that time the Royal Navy had in excess of 500 active ships and creating names must have taken some effort - there was a HMS Terrible and HMS Fanny.

nkrisc•7mo ago

> HMS Terrible

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terrible

3. exciting terror, awe, or great fear; dreadful; awful.

4. formidably great.

I think it's a perfectly suitable name for a warship. The notion of "terrible" describing the inferior quality of something is a much more recent meaning, I believe.

HeyLaughingBoy•7mo ago

Yeah, but compare "HMS Fanny" to "HMS Indefatigable."

Especially considering the British colloquial usage of "fanny" I think someone was in a particularly good mood that day.

nkrisc•7mo ago

That one I have no explanation for.

ceejayoz•7mo ago

Don’t forget HMS Cockchafer, Spanker, and Tickler.

WalterBright•7mo ago

The dreadnought class of warships have the best moniker.

falcor84•7mo ago

I love that they also marked up "Sandwich" as a tag, to make it easier for you to explore other articles they had published about sandwiches.

teeray•7mo ago

It also likely gave us Sandwich, MA, which consequently gave us the police there, who are literally “Sandwich Police”

pcthrowaway•7mo ago

Or you can find an art gallery next to a Subway, where Sandwich artists work side by side.

potato3732842•7mo ago

Which is doubly funny because it's a tourist/retirement town with a larger than it needs police department (whole region is this way, not just this town) so they inevitably fill their time with with activities befitting the name.

Electricniko•7mo ago

Are you saying the excessive number of police results in absurd enforcement practices, or are you saying their officers are large because they spend all day confiscating sandwiches?

louthy•7mo ago

Yes

potato3732842•7mo ago

> they spend all day confiscating sandwiches?

Enforcing a "no food or drink" posting in a public place that exists solely to drive business to vendors (who've doubtlessly paid an unnecessary chunk of flesh to the government for access to the captive market) is exactly the kind of thing I can see them doing.

bryanlarsen•7mo ago

Same reason we get modern stupid names like "Crypto.com Arena". Those who pay the money and/or give the orders get to choose the name, and they like putting their own names on things.

WalterBright•7mo ago

In Seattle we have the "Climate Pledge Arena"

tomcam•7mo ago

I’m hoping to get that changed to “Lord Sandwich Arena”

sfjailbird•7mo ago

Maybe they did a public poll to name the vessel...

moron4hire•7mo ago

The bigger question is if making a Sandwich is considered Cooking.

collingreen•7mo ago

Slow clap

wpollock•7mo ago

The even bigger question is, does a hot dog count as a sandwich?

moron4hire•7mo ago

It's clearly an Usonian Taco.

daedalus_j•7mo ago

In case you were unaware:

http://cuberule.com has solved this question definitively.

lordsandwich•7mo ago

Hey, I resemble that remark.

The Endeavor is not to be confused with Shackleton's ship the Endurance (as I had in my mind), which went down after getting mangled by pack ice and never got the chance to be officially renamed the "Lord Hamburger".

WalterBright•7mo ago

Even better:

    "Sir Osis of Liver"

colechristensen•7mo ago

Only when you forget that "sandwich" was a name of a place first (and the person with a title associated with it ". Putting stuff between bread is named after a person and may well have been poking fun at him originally.

anonymous344•7mo ago

how tf u can make website so awful to the mobile user?

pxmpxm•7mo ago

TBH not a ton better on the desktop...

fluidcruft•7mo ago

Seems fine on Firefox Android. Possibly uBlock helps there are a bunch of empty white things so dunno.

jen729w•7mo ago

A once-decent newspaper whose broadsheet I used to read in the late 90s. Long gone the way of the Daily Mail et. al., alas. I see the Indie's URL now and don't even bother.

pomian•7mo ago

Yup. Switch to Firefox or fennec and use ublock. Clean story. Even can use text mode.

cromulent•7mo ago

Didn't they announce this 3 years ago?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/03/capta...

hluska•7mo ago

That article says that the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project didn’t agree with the identification. This new article is about a published article on the discovery. The articles are totally different.

madaxe_again•7mo ago

I read it not so much as a disagreement over identification but over publication rights, which is the norm in academia.

bredren•7mo ago

> who said the finding was “premature” and a “breach of contract”, claiming that it was the lead organisation for the study

“Premature” and “breach of contract” are very different things.

I wonder what additional work was done so as to find that announcement now, years later, is okay.

freedomben•7mo ago

My parent brain read this as Captain Hook instead of Captain Cook and I've gotta say, I'm a little disappointed

BurningFrog•7mo ago

Now I finally realize why the character is named Captain Hook!

parpfish•7mo ago

It’s just a coincidence that he has a hook for a hand. He was Mr Hook for years before that accident where the croc bit his hand off.

mediumsmart•7mo ago

You are not supposed to cook a sandwich

rbits•7mo ago

I beg to differ

HeyLaughingBoy•7mo ago

Panini, anyone? I take it you've never had a good Cuban sandwich, then.

roygbiv2•7mo ago

Toasted sandwich? They're pretty much the god of sandwiches.

BurningFrog•7mo ago

A bit odd to have an Al Jazeera video on https://www.independent.co.uk/

CoastalCoder•7mo ago

Has anyone found a clear indication of the wreck's location?

There's been a lot of interesting ship activity in Narraganset Bay lately, at least as seen when crossing the Jamestown / Newport bridges. I'm curious if any of it's related to that wreck.

Hilift•7mo ago

The map shows a location of a line of deliberately scuttled ships to block the harbor between Rose Island and Battery Park. Most of the ships were salvaged, the Endeavour was not.

CoastalCoder•7mo ago

Interesting, thanks. I guess I was probably barking up the wrong tree then.

Most of the interesting ship activity I've been seeing lately is further west and north.

And URI GSO's research vessel has been closer to its main dock, which shouldn't have surprised me one little bit.

app134•7mo ago

I don't believe they have made it public.

I worked this wreck with RIMAP and had to sign an NDA before boating out, but that was back in 2020

HeyLaughingBoy•7mo ago

> Lord Sandwich was one of thirteen vessels scuttled (deliberately sunk) to act as a submerged blockade

That's a pretty sucky end for a vessel that made so much history.

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