On this day – October 20 – in 1926, right wing Bill Cook was named the captain of the New York Rangers, becoming the first ...

The story of Capt. James Cook’s third voyage has all the elements of a Greek tragedy — hubris, good intentions gone awry, fatal error. The English sea captain, an ...

Experts have finally confirmed that a shipwreck off the coast of Rhode Island is the wreckage of Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour. Also known as the HMB Endeavour and the Lord Sandwich, the ship was ...

Spanish, Japanese and Dutch seafarers probably visited Hawaii between the time, many centuries ago, when Polynesians first ...

After researchers in Australia reported finding the wreck of the Endeavour off Rhode Island, their U.S. partners issued a startling rebuke. By Manan Luthra SYDNEY, Australia — When the British ...

Among the key findings were the predominance of white oak in the ship’s construction—a material preferred by 18th-century shipwrights in the U.K., where the vessel was built—and holes that point to ...