Sumption said divers believed the wreck may be the missing Endeavour because of the dimensions of the timber samples found at the bottom of the harbour. If the timber samples turned out to be British in origin, the researchers would seek approval from local authorities in the US to dig around the wreckage to seek further evidence.
He said he held out hope some part of the wreckage could make it to Australian shores again. This article is more than 3 years old. Marine archaeologists believe they have found the wreckage of the ship near Newport, Rhode Island, US. The Endeavour spent the next three years shipping Navy stores to the Falkland Islands. She was renamed and sold in , but was used as a troop transport during the American Revolutionary War.
She sank in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island in Her wreck has not been found, but relics, including six of her cannons and an anchor , are displayed at maritime museums worldwide. A full size working copy of Endeavour was launched in and is berthed alongside the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney Harbour.
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