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
Captain Cook Highway suburb of Smithfield as National Route 1, crossing the south and north arms of the Barron River. From there it continues as State Route 44 through the beachside suburbs of Kewarra Beach and Palm Cove, and then follows the coast almost to Port Douglas. It then proceeds north-west to Mossman where it terminates. Captain Cook Highway Captain Cook Highway is a short Queensland highway that starts in Cairns and ends in Mossman, where it joins Mossman-Daintree Road, which continues to Daintree. Captain Cook Highway is used by many tourists to travel to Port Douglas north of Cairns. Apart from being