HMS Endeavour

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Royal Navy

• The first Endeavour was a 36-gun ship purchased in 1652 and sold in 1656.
• The second Endeavour was a 4-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1694 and sold in 1696.
• The third Endeavour was a fire ship
  Fire ship
  
  A fire ship, used in the days of wooden rowed or sailing ships, was a ship filled with combustibles, deliberately set on fire and steered into an enemy fleet, in order to destroy ships, or to create panic and make the enemy break formation....
   purchased in 1694 and sold in 1696.
• The fourth Endeavour was a hoy (boat)
  Hoy (boat)
  
  A hoy was a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight. The word derives from the Middle Dutch hoeyPrecisely what it was like and what its use, changed with time....
   purchased in 1694 and sold in 1704.
• The fifth Endeavour was a cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771.
• The sixth Endeavour was a 14-gun sloop
  Sloop-of-war
  
  In the 18th and the earlier part of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a small sailing warship with a single gun deck that carried anything up to eighteen cannon....
  , purchased in 1763 and wrecked in 1780 in a hurricane off Jamaica
  Jamaica
  
  Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....
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• The seventh and most famous Endeavour was HM Bark Endeavour
  HM Bark Endeavour
  
  His Majesty's Bark Endeavour was a 10-gun Royal Navy barque commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his First voyage of James Cook, to Australia and New Zealand in 1769-71....
  , originally Earl of Pembroke, a 6-gun bark
  Barque
  
  A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel....
   purchased in 1768. She was known as Endeavour Bark to distinguish her from her contemporary listed above. She was commanded by Lieutenant James Cook
  James Cook
  
  Captain James Cook Royal Society Royal Navy was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy....
   in his voyage of exploration in the Pacific, 1768–1771. She was sold in 1775.
• The eighth Endeavour was a schooner
  Schooner
  
  A schooner is a type of sailing ship characterized by the use of fore-and-aft rig sails on two or more mast s. Schooners were first used by the Netherlands in the 16th or 17th century, and further developed in North America from the early 18th century onwards....
   purchased in 1775 and sold in 1782.
• The ninth Endeavour was a survey ship launched in 1912, used as a depot ship
  Depot ship
  
  A depot ship is a ship which acts as a mobile or fixed base for other ships and submarines or supports a naval base. Depot ships may be specifically designed for their purpose or be converted from another purpose....
   from 1940, and sold in 1946.

Royal New Zealand Navy

• The tenth, HMNZS Endeavour (1956)
  HMNZS Endeavour (1956)
  
  HMNZS Endeavour was an Antarctic support vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy. She made five voyages to the Antarctic.She was named after James Cook HM Bark Endeavour and was the first of three ships in the Royal New Zealand Navy to carry that name, though if earlier continuity with the Royal Navy is considered, she was the tenth....
  , served as the Antarctic support vessel from 1956 to 1962
• The eleventh, HMNZS Endeavour (A184)
  USS Namakagon (AOG-53)
  
  USS Namakagon was a Patapsco class gasoline tanker gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations....
  , served as the Antarctic support vessel from 1962 to 1971
• The twelfth, HMNZS Endeavour (A11)
  HMNZS Endeavour (A11)
  
  HMNZS Endeavour is the current fleet Replenishment oiler for the Royal New Zealand Navy. She is named after James Cook HM Bark Endeavour and is the third ship in the RNZN to carry that name, though if continuity with the Royal Navy ships of the name HMS Endeavour is considered, she is the twelfth....
  , is the current fleet tanker commissioned in 1988

Replica

Fictional

• HMS Endeavour, Lord Cutler Beckett
  Cutler Beckett
  
  Lord Cutler Beckett is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. First introduced in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as a secondary antagonist and returning in At World's End as main antagonist....
  's ship and flag ship of the East India Trading Company Armada in Pirates of the Caribbean
  Pirates of the Caribbean
  
  Pirates of the Caribbean is a multi-billion dollar The Walt Disney Company franchise encompassing a theme park ride, a series of Pirates of the Caribbean and spinoff novels as well as numerous video games and other publications....
  . A ship of the line
  Ship of the line
  
  A ship-of-the-line was a type of naval warship constructed from the 17th century through the mid-19th century, to take part in the Naval tactics in the Age of Sail known as the line of battle, in which two columns of opposing warships would maneuver to bring the greatest weight of broadside guns to bear....
   with well over 100 guns with additional cannons on the upper deck.

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