HMS Endeavour — Captain Cook's 1768 Bark Model, Hand-Painted (37.8 in / 96 cm, Rosewood, Mahogany & Teak)
HMS Endeavour — Captain Cook's 1768 Bark Model, Hand-Painted (37.8 in / 96 cm, Rosewood, Mahogany & Teak)
How big is it?
Length about 96 cm / 37.8 in, height about 85 cm. Drawn to scale; the model outline is a simplified shape.
Model details
- Size
- 37.8 in / 96 cm
- Materials
- Mahogany, Rosewood, Teak, Brass, Linen sails
- Construction
- Plank-on-frame, built by hand
- Condition
- Fully assembled, ready to display
- Display
- Wooden base with brass nameplate
- Collection
- Tall Ship Models - Admiral Line
- Item no.
- T372
Cook's Endeavour at 37.8 inches, hand-painted, in rosewood, mahogany and teak. Our largest edition of the ship.
Scale suits this subject in an unexpected way. Endeavour was a blunt, flat-bottomed coal carrier, not a graceful warship, and a large hull makes that honest working-vessel shape legible instead of merely small.
Specification
- 37.8 in / 96 cm
- Plank-on-frame hull in rosewood, mahogany and teak, hand-painted
- Three masts and bowsprit with full hand-knotted standing and running rigging
- Hand-stitched linen sails on every yard
- Deck detail: ship's boats, capstan, windlass, wheel, gratings, ladders and rails
- Metal anchors and wooden rudder
- Solid wood base with engraved brass nameplate
- Fully assembled
History
Launched at Whitby in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke and bought by the Navy in 1768, she was chosen for exactly the qualities that made her unglamorous: a strong flat-bottomed hull that could be beached for repair. That choice saved the expedition on 11 June 1770, when she struck the Great Barrier Reef and her crew threw guns and ballast overboard to float her off. Cook charted the whole of New Zealand's coast in her and became the first European to reach eastern Australia.