• The first voyage of James Cook was a discovery expedition to the south Pacific Ocean, with aims of observing the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun...
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    688 crew members. The following is a full list of known crew members who sailed on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. Included in this list are the nine-member...
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    Account of Cook's first voyage. Digitised copies of log books from James Cook's voyages at the British Atmospheric Data Centre Works by James Cook at Project...
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  • through the voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 passengers and crew. The ship's...
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    "The Third Voyage of Columbus, 1498–1500". Archived from the original on September 26, 2011. Noble, David Cook. "Nicolás de Ovando" in Encyclopedia of...
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    15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton...
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    edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words. The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration...
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    18 September. She had left Liverpool with 47 crew members and she had suffered 22 crew deaths on her voyage. On her return, Bird's master changed to J.Hughes...
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    interpret the history of the mutineers. James Cook commanded his first voyage in HMS Endeavour as a newly promoted lieutenant, and was not promoted to the rank...
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    draft list of the crew before the voyage includes several who did not sail, including two pressed men who are thought to have deserted. Of the eventual...
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