The British explorer who sailed the uncharted Pacific Ocean in the 1700s, ... An engraving, published in 1850, depicting the death of Captain James Cook in Hawaii in 1779.

The wreck of Captain James Cook's famed vessel the Endeavour has been found off the coast of the US state of Rhode Island, Australian researchers said Thursday.

While Rhode Island disputed the news, the Endeavour—known for Britain’s first encounter with what would become Australia—lay under 14 meters of water just 500 metres offshore, Australia said.

The wreck of Captain James Cook's famed vessel the Endeavour has been found off the coast of the US state of Rhode Island, Australian researchers said Thursday.

In January 1779, when the British explorer James Cook sailed into a volcanic bay known by Hawaiians as “the Pathway of the Gods,” he beheld thousands of people seemingly waiting for him on shore.

A pistol owned by British explorer Captain James Cook, who first claimed Australia for Britain nearly two and a half centuries ago, will go on the auction block next month in Melbourne.

Experts identified what’s left of British explorer James Cook’s ship HMS Endeavour in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island; Cook sailed the ship around the South Pacific in a pioneering voyage before ...