A kit for building a 1:50 scale model of the sailing ship HMS Endeavour.
HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was the British Royal Navy's first voyage of discovery to Australia and New Zealand, lasting from 1769 to 1771. She was launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, and the Navy bought her in 1768 on a scientific mission to the Pacific and the Navy renamed and commissioned her as His Majesty's Bark the Endeavour. She left Plymouth in August 1768, circumnavigated Cape Horn and arrived in Tahiti in time to observe the passage of Venus across the Sun in 1769. She then sailed largely unexplored ocean to the south, stopping at the islands of Huahine, Borabora and Raiatea in the Pacific to allow Cook to seize them for Britain. In September 1769, she anchored off the coast of New Zealand, being the first European ship to reach the islands since Abel Tasman's Heemskerck 127 years earlier. In April 1770, Endeavour became the first ship to reach Australia's eastern coast when Cook came ashore at what is now known as Botany Bay. The Endeavour then sailed north along the Australian coast. She barely avoided disaster after she ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, and Cook had to throw her guns overboard to relieve her. He then returned to land for seven weeks to allow for basic repairs to the hull. on October 10, 1770, she sailed into the port of Batavia (now called Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies for major repairs, with her crew sworn to secrecy about the land they discovered. She resumed her westward voyage on December 26, sailed around the Cape of Good Hope on March 13, 1771 and arrived in the English port of Dover on July 12 after nearly three years at sea.
Dimensions:
- length: 890 mm
- height: 730 mm
- width: 180 mm
- scale: 1:50
For more information, photos, assembly instructions, visit the manufacturer's website.
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