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HMS Endeavour’s Longboat 1:50 Scale

HMS 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, with the Navy purchasing 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”. Commissioned as His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour, she departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn and reached Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the islands of Huahine, Bora Bora, and Raiatea west of Tahiti to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain. In September 1769, she anchored off New Zealand, becoming the first European vessel to reach the islands since Abel Tasman’s Heemskerck 127 years earlier.

The Latina HMS Endeavour’s Longboat 1:50 Scale kit includes pre-sewn sails, all fittings and rigging, all deck planking, hull, masts, bowsprit, three rolls of rigging thread, flag, All-wood construction features African walnut, ramin, sapelle, coral, plywood and boxwood, brass hardware such as eyebolts, deck lights, rings, and more

Three colors of thread, brown and raw (pale green) for different rigging applications and an excellent photo-illustrated instruction book and plans.

Length: 16.53″ , Height: 10.6″ , Beam: 3.53″ , Scale 1:50

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