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
GRV James Cook GRV James Cook GRV "James Cook" was a research vessel of the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. It was built in 1966 as the New Zealand Sea Products Export Ltd trawler "Sea Harvester II" and purchased by the New Zealand government in 1969 when the company went bankrupt. The ship was renamed "James Cook" after Captain James Cook and used as a research vessel until 1991, when it was replaced by the RV "Tangaroa". "James Cook" was purchased by Seafresh New Zealand Ltd for use as a fishing boat but the company ceased trading soon after. The ship