![]() 1996: A third souvenir from La Liberté goes to space on STS-77 (Space Shuttle Endeavour with Australia's first astronaut). 1992: Another souvenir from La Liberté goes to space on STS-49 (first flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour). 1971: One of the souvenirs from La Liberté goes to the moon on Apollo 15 (command module Endeavour). 1970: New evidence suggests that HMS Endeavour was not La Liberté but had instead been renamed Lord Sandwich, whereabouts unknown. The story goes something like this: early 1800s: HMS Endeavour is thought to have been renamed La Liberté and ended up rotting at Newport, Rhode Island. Quote from: gparker on 03:16 pm Peter Moore in "Endeavour: The Ship That Changed The World" has several pages about the fate of HMS Endeavour. I don't see any results from that analysis yet. 2019: A wreck that might be Lord Sandwich is excavated. 1999: New evidence shows that Lord Sandwich had been scuttled, by a great coincidence, in the harbor outside Newport, Rhode Island (as part of the American Revolution, no less). 1997: New evidence confirms that HMS Endeavour had been renamed Lord Sandwich and that La Liberté had actually been Cook's HMS Resolution. ![]() Peter Moore in "Endeavour: The Ship That Changed The World" has several pages about the fate of HMS Endeavour. ![]()
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