Ambitious plans have been announced to bring HM Bark Endeavour back to Whitby in 2028 to mark the 300th anniversary of the ...

A LANDMARK statue commemorating the legendary explorer Captain James Cook could be restored to its former glory. The iconic statue, overlooking Whitby harbour and Abbey, is in need of serious ...

Though controversy erupted when a shipwreck was declared to be the HMS Endeavour back in 2022, a new published report ...

The idea had been to sail the vessel from Whitby to the other side of the world. It would have been a recreation of the explorer’s 1768 voyage and arriving in 1988, the year of Australia’s ...

The replica of Captain Cook's Endeavour ship is up for sale. The visitor attraction and hospitality vessel moored in Whitby is being advertised on a business property website and the marketing ...

It’s 250 years since Captain Cook first set sail to the south seas, and this weekend Whitby is hosting big anniversary celebrations. The weekend of “discovery and entertainment” has ...

From: Tim Hunter, Farfield Avenue, Knaresborough.

Cook was a steady, unspectacular sailor, unknown outside the Royal Navy, and the Endeavour was an undistinguished vessel, built to ferry coal to London from Cook's native Whitby.

A Whitby museum is displaying knitted food to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the invention of the sandwich. Over 100 sandwiches have been knitted by members of the public in honour of John ...

IT’S ASSOCIATIONS with Dracula and Captain Cook are well known, as are its 199 steps, its fish and chips, jumbled pantile roofs and spray-lashed piers. Everyone loves Whitby.