James Cook grocer and haberdasher William Sanderson. Historians have speculated that this is where Cook first felt the lure of the sea while gazing out of the shop window. After 18 months, not proving suitable for shop work, Cook travelled to the nearby port town of Whitby to be introduced to friends of Sanderson's, John and Henry Walker. The Walkers, who were Quakers, were prominent local ship-owners in the coal trade. Their house is now the Captain Cook Memorial Museum. Cook was taken on as a merchant navy apprentice in their small fleet of vessels, plying coal along the English coast. His
James Cook University another campus in Brisbane, Queensland in 2006. JCU Singapore moved campuses in February 2015. The Hon. Tony Abbott MP, Prime Minister of Australia officially opened the new JCU Singapore campus at 149 Sims Drive on 28 June 2015. As a corporate body, James Cook University bears arms comprising four main elements – shield, crest (Captain James Cook’s ship, "HMS Endeavour", in full sail), supporters (a pair of brolgas with open wings), and motto. The University motto is "Cresente Luce", which means "light ever increasing". This motto was first proposed by Professor Frederick Walter Robinson (Doc Robbie), professor of English at