Captain Cook (1826 ship) Captain Cook (1826 ship) Captain Cook was a 452-ton merchant ship built at Whitby, England in 1826. She made three voyages transporting convicts from Ireland and England to Australia. On her first convict voyage, under the command of William Steward and surgeon Eben Johnson, she departed Dublin, Ireland on 5 November 1831, with 200 male convicts. She arrived in Sydney arriving on 2 April 1832. There were two convict deaths en route. "Captain Cook" left Port Jackson on 15 May 1832 bound for Launceston. The second convict voyage, under the command of William Thompson and surgeon John Morgan, she departed
Captain Cook Memorial Museum left the house to them as tenants in common. The brothers allowed their mother to continue to live in the house. After the deaths of his mother and brother, John Walker moved into the house by 1755. The house remained in the family until the mid 19th century and then was used by turns as a hospital and as a private residence until rescued in 1986 to become the Captain Cook Memorial Museum. Cook was introduced in 1746 to Captain John Walker by William Sanderson, the grocer for whom Cook had worked in Staithes, a nearby fishing village. Walker took