BILLING BOATS HMS ENDEAVOUR B514 MODEL SHIP KIT

Billing Boats

Billing Boats HMS Endeavour 1:50 scale wooden model ship kit BB514\n\nHMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy first voyage of discovery, to Australia and New Zealand, from 1769 to 1771. She was launched in 1764 as the collier Earl of Pembroke, and the Navy purchased her in 1768 for a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean and to The Navy renamed and commissioned her as His Majesty\u2019s Bark the Endeavour. She departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reached Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set sail into the largelyuncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of Huahine, Borabora, and Raiatea to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain. In September 1769, she anchored off New Zealand, the first European vessel to reach the islands since Abel Tasman\u2019s Heemskerck 127 years earlier. In April 1770, Endeavour became the first ship to reach the east coast of Australia, whed