A group of Australian maritime experts said Thursday that they may have found the wreck of one of the most important ships in history. Long ago the ship was said to be travelling the South Pacific after it was scuttled in the U.S. more than 200 years ago. However, archaeologists in the U.S. quickly questioned the findings as premature and a breach of contract in their joint research.
For close to 22 years, maritime archaeologists have been investigating different ancient shipwrecks in a 2-square -mile area. The location they are searching is in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island where James Cook’s HMS Endeavour was believed to have been sunk by the British. Prior to being sunk, Cook sailed the ship around the South Pacific in a pioneering voyage. And then landed in Australia in 1770.
Kevin Sumption, the chief executive of the Australian National Maritime Museum held a news conference on Thursday. Suction explained that “I am satisfied that this is the final resting place of one of the most important and contentious vessels in Australia’s maritime history,”
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