Captain Cook Memorial Museum arms round the great man, she cried "Oh honey James! How glad I is to see thee!" Investigations carried out in 2001 revealed: The acquisition of Walker’s House by the Cook Museum Trust enabled the Trust to establish a museum in Whitby dedicated to the celebration of the life of Captain Cook and the scientists, artists and crews who sailed with him. The collections comprise original letters about the Voyages including correspondence of Cook, Lord Sandwich, Sir Joseph Banks and the Forsters, paintings and drawings by the artists who went with Cook to the Pacific, including Parkinson, Hodges, and Webber,
RRS James Cook Caribbean. In September 2015, while on a cruise studying the seabed and marine life of the Whittard Canyon on the northern margin of the Bay of Biscay, oceanographers believe they pictured the first blue whale in English waters since the mammals were almost hunted to extinction in the north-east Atlantic. RRS James Cook The RRS "James Cook" is a British Royal Research Ship operated by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). She was built in 2006 to replace the ageing RRS "Charles Darwin" with funds from Britain's NERC and the DTI's Large Scientific Facilities Fund. She was named after Captain