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 Gibson (seaman) time, Parliament publishes a notice in Boston for the heirs of the James Gibson estate regarding the payment due. Mary contracted the services of an attorney to travel to London to collect the sum, and he eloped and was never heard from again by Mary or her descendants. With her father's estate now lost to her, she gave up any further efforts to claim lost property. James Gibson (seaman) James Gibson (1700 – 1752) was a British ship Captain who became a merchant in the British Colonies of Jamaica and the Province of Massachusetts Bay. During King George's War(1744–1748), William