Who first sailed out of Whitby aboard the collier Freelove - his later ships include HMS Eagle, HMS Solebay, HMS Grenville and HMS Endeavour?
HMS Endeavour HMS Endeavour HMS "Endeavour, also known as HM Bark "Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771. She was launched in 1764 as the collier "Earl of Pembroke", and the navy purchased her in 1768 for a scientific mission to the Pacific Ocean and to explore the seas for the surmised "Terra Australis Incognita" or "unknown southern land". The navy renamed and commissioned her as "His Majesty's Bark Endeavour". She departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reached
HMS Solebay (1763) William Hay. In 1777-78 the vessel was used as a floating prison for John McKinly, the first President of Delaware, who was captured by the British Army after the Battle of Brandywine. HMS Solebay (1763) HMS "Solebay" was a sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy which saw active service between 1766 and 1782, during the latter part of the Seven Years' War and throughout the American Revolutionary War. After a successful career in which she captured seven enemy vessels, she was wrecked ashore on the Caribbean Island of Nevis. "Solebay" was one of three Royal Navy vessels designed according to