Artesania Latina 22516 British Royal Navy Armed Research Vessel 1761 1:60 scale HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand from 1769 to 1771
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Yawl, Pinnace, Longboat , 2 Skiffs.
71 Ship's Company
12 Royal Marines
10 x 4-pdrs : 12 Swivel Guns.
1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, she was purchased by the Navy in 1768 for
a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean, and
to explore the seas for the surmised Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown
southern land". Renamed and commissioned as His Majesty's Bark the
Endeavour, she departed Plymouth in August 1768,
rounded Cape Horn, and reached Tahiti in time
to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set sail into the
largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of
Huahine, Borabora, and Raiatea to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain.
In September 1769, she anchored off New Zealand, the first European
vessel to reach the islands since Abel Tasman's Heemskerck 127 years earlier.
In April 1770, Endeavour became the first seagoing vessel to reach the east
coast of Australia, when
Cook went ashore at what is now known as Botany Bay.
model ships is an absorbing hobby, but it can be even more enjoyable if the
correct tools are used. There are some specific tools necessary to do the job,
such as a good hand drill with a selection of miniature drill bits. Some are
some very specific tools for period ship building, plank benders for example
reduce the risk of frustrating splitting or breaking of the often wafer thin
These kits come complete but need assembling and will require glue etc.
The right tools always make the job easier, You may find these tools a useful addition to your kit building tool box.
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