Captain Cook: A Legacy Under Fire, Vanessa Collingridge

Captain Cook: A Legacy Under Fire, Vanessa Collingridge, c. 2002.

Notes
b. 1728, to a Scottish farmer; again, Scottish, amazing
family connections to retail story in Staithes, north of Whitby
1747, 19 y/o: to Staithes
Freelove: coal ship
3-year apprenticeship
merchant navy
1752: "mate" on the Friendship
Royal Navy: 1755 -- war in Italy; was on the 4th rate HMS Eagle; 60 guns
then the HMS Solbay -- 1757
then the HMS Pembroke, a 5-month-old, 64-gun ship
real missions
French/English war in North America
Master of the Ship
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Gulf of St Lawrence
Cape Breton Island: French guard-dog for colonies in Quebec and Montreal
most heavily fortified settlement for the French  in North American in 1758 when Cook arrived
the Brits won
Cook stepped ashore at Louisbourg
Cook met the ship's surveyor: Lt Samuel Holland
Cook had found his forte -- that chance meeting would change the course of history (p. 44)
the rise of scientific navigation!! -- mid-18th century
this info published; formally taught for years
Cook: serendipitous

first major project: small
"The Bay and Harbour of Gaspey) -- p. 45
1758 -- Cook's map / work
30 y/o
engraved and published in London

St Lawrence: continued to survey
Cook started compiling the other great navigational aids of the time; called "Sailing Directions" -- p. 46

St Lawrence / The Traverse (p. 47)
The Brits take Quebec

Three more years on the St Lawrence

1762: returns to England
George III had established an Empire
Industrial Revolution gaining pace
Canal Age with new route form Worsley to Manchester
Josiah Wedgewood -- first China factory
James Cook had found his niche

1762: 34 y/o -- marries Elizabeth Batts, 21 y/o

becomes the King's surveyor
joins the HMS Antelope, to Canada
1763 -- the Surveyor's Art or the Grenville; Newfoundland; injures his hand
1766: astronomy
used a telescope and the start so determine longitude
the transit of Venus
1768: Tahiti -- perfect place to observe the Transit of Venus

The Early of Pembroke -- a Whitby cat (flat-bottomed; broad-stern, coal ship)
Lt James Cook
re-classified as a "bark" -- p. 105
re-names the Endeavor

The voyage of the Endeavor
40th latitude
Botany Bay