Captain Cook Memorial Museum him on as apprentice seaman for a three-year term. Cook served Walker first as apprentice, then as seaman and lastly as master’s mate until he joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He spent most of his time at sea on Walker’s colliers, mainly in the coal trade between the Tyne and London but including voyages to the Baltic and Dublin. The Whitby historian George Young, ‘Life of Cook’ 1836, stated that during Cook’s apprenticeship Walker retained Cook in Whitby on occasion and lodged him in the attic of the house in Grape Lane. There should be no difficulty in accepting
James Paton (seaman) James Paton (seaman) James "Scotty" Paton (1869–1917 or 18) was a Scots-born seaman who sailed to the Antarctic in several major expeditions between 1902 and 1917. His first venture was from 1902 to 1904 as a crewman of "Captain William Colbeck"'s SY Morning. This expedition consisted of two voyages and was sent as a relief ship for the Captain Scott's Discovery Expedition. During the first voyage the ship was briefly stalled in the ice between Cape Bird and Beaufort Island. Scotty Paton took the opportunity to leave ship and jump floes a distance of one mile to 'land' of Beaufort