# Captain Cook's HMS Endeavor Discovered after 230 Years
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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 3, 2016, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-cooks-hms-endeavor-discovered-after-230-years/753760 "2016-05-03T05:15:40Z")
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-cooks-hms-endeavor-discovered-after-230-years/753760/21 "2016-05-04T19:40:11Z")
> [@Finagle](#):
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> Above or below water? Newport is plenty scenic. But visibility in New England waters is maybe four or five feet. Also, depending on the location, New England coastal waters can be pretty rough and Newport is one of the windier areas. So, unless you like mud, murk, and lobsters – no, not really all that attractive for diving.
Not completely true. I’ve been shore diving from Ft. Wetherill in Jamestown RI many times. There’s a decent amount to see. But diving in the middle of an active harbor would definitely be contraindicated.
But as stated above - a 200 year old wreck doesn’t look like an intact ship sitting on the bottom of the ocean, with the name “Endeavour” clearly showing on the stern. It’s undoubtedly a jumbled pile of old planks at best.
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-cooks-hms-endeavor-discovered-after-230-years/753760/22 "2016-05-04T20:51:44Z")
> [@scr4](#):
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> It’s interesting that nobody at that time thought it important enough to preserve it. Have British attitude towards inanimate historical objects changed much since then? Or just more biased towards military/royalty? (I note that HMS Victory is from that era, and is not only preserved, but still commissioned.)
If any ship was important enough to have been preserved in British history it would have been the [HMS Bellerophon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bellerophon_(1786)). She was a British 74, the backbone of England’s “Wooden Walls”, and was the only ship to have been at the Battle of the Nile, Trafalgar, and the Glorious First of June. She was the ship that Napoleon ended up surrendering to. Was she saved? Nope. She was put up in ordinary, converted to a prison ship and then finally sent to the breakers yard. History and tradition may be important to the Navy, but not, apparently, sentimentality.
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