HMS Endeavour
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Length | 30 m |
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Launched | June 1764 |
Boats & landing craft carried | yawl, pinnace, longboat, two skiffs |
Sail plan | Full rigged ship; 3,321 square yards (2,777 m2) of sail |
Renamed | Lord Sandwich, February 1776 |
Did you know | HM Bark Endeavour was originally a small merchant collier named Earl of Pembroke, built in Whitby, North Yorkshire. |
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ID | 1203709 |
About HMS Endeavour
HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.
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Maori-shoots: the UK deplores killings by the Endeavour crew
...To see a replica of the Hms Endeavour, here at the landing, in what poverty Bay the UK is now expressed has regret Maori for crimes against your ancestors, as the Explorer James Cook arrived in new Zealand 250 years ago...
Maori-shoots: the UK deplores killings by the Endeavour crew
To see a replica of the Hms Endeavour , here at the landing, in what poverty Bay
the UK is now expressed has regret Maori for crimes against your ancestors, as the Explorer James Cook arrived in New Zealand 250 years ago.
the Indigenous activists say, in less than two hours landed after Captain Cook and his crew on the Hms Endeavour , had committed atrocities, including murder.
in the UK high Commissioner Maori met to recognize the leader of the murders.
Captain Cook is recognised as one of The World 's greatest explorers, but his legacy has been questioned by many.
the Maori in New Zealand people came in contact with Captain Cook and his crew in 1769, after the Hms Endeavour landed in what is now the Bay of poverty.
In two separate ceremonies with Maori groups, High Commissioner Laura Clarke made, expressions of regret, both to the Ngati Oneone hapu and Rongowhakaata iwi for the killing of nine of their ancestors, during The First encounters with Captain Cook 's crew.
It took place in the town of Gisborne, where The British landed in 1769.
"It is impossible to know exactly what led to the deaths, but it is clear that their ancestors were shot and killed by The Crew of the Endeavour, and others were said to be wounded," Ms Clarke.
"it was very much regretted, which documents The Crew of the Endeavour at the Time , as in The Diary of Joseph Banks [the expedition's official botanist] and regret is not Here Today .
"It is deeply sad that The First encounter happened in the way that it did. And, to offer you, as The Descendants of the murdered, I have all of my sympathy, because I don't understand removing The Pain with Time . "
Captain Cook 's legacy is controversial, to say in Modern Times ,activists, the damage, caused by The British colonization, even now, with the Maori communities with higher levels of deprivation suffer.
In a statement on its Facebook page,
But it recalled that The Crew had opened fire almost as soon as they are landed, killing The Local chief, and others.
"only that you have been missing here for two hours, cook and his crew, terrorized, killed and stolen from us. "
Other Maori rights advocates) have been critical of the low-key ceremony, which stopped short of an apology.
Many have described as insensitive to this weekend of anniversary events on the occasion of the arrival of Captain Cook , the are expected to important protests.
she sees him as an intruder, whose explorations have helped to chart the Pacific Ocean will be destroyed on colonialism and the traditional communities.
The UK has offered expressions of regret for the actions that happened during the colonial period, only in a few instances.
In may, then to great Britain, its history in India. Hundreds of people troops were shot.
Many in India and elsewhere pressed for a full apology, which was forthcoming.
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Source of news: bbc.com