HMS Adventure (1771)
 Hodges: Resolution and Adventure in Matavai Bay
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The HMS Adventure was a Bark of the Royal Navy . She was one of the two ships with which James Cook undertook his second expedition (1772-1775) and was under the command of Tobias Furneaux . She was the first ship to circumnavigate the earth from west to east.
history
The necklace was 39.7 m long and was commissioned as Marquis of Rockingham at Whitby in 1771 . A short time later it was acquired by the Navy and was first named Rayleigh , then Adventure .
The Resolution and the Adventure left Plymouth on July 13, 1772 , under the command of James Cook , and crossed the Tropic of Capricorn on January 17, 1773. On February 8, 1773, the ships were separated in a fog. Tobias Furneaux explored the Tasmanian coast on the way to the agreed meeting point in Queen Charlotte Sound . The Adventure reached the meeting point on May 7th, 1773, the Resolution on May 17th.
After exploring the Pacific, the ships lost contact with each other again on October 22nd. You missed yourself at the meeting point. Furneaux decided to return home. The journey lasted until July 14, 1774.
In 1780 she was used as a beacon ship, sold back to her old owners in Whitby in 1783 and continued to be used as a cargo ship under the name Adventure . It ended up as a wreck in the St. Lawrence River in 1811 .
Web links
- HMS Adventure . In: Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia . Houghton Mifflin Company, archived from the original onOctober 10, 2005; accessed on January 17, 2016(English, original website no longer available).
literature
- James Cook: Exploring the Pacific. The logbooks of the journeys 1768–1779. Edited by A. Grenfell Price. Edition Erdmann, Lenningen 2005, ISBN 3-86503-024-6 .
- Alan Villiers : Captain James Cook. Navigators and explorers. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-7822-0182-5 .
- Georg Forster : A voyage of discovery to Tahiti and the South Seas. 1772-1775. Re-edited by Hermann Homann. Edition Erdmann, Stuttgart et al. 1988, ISBN 3-7711-0316-9 .