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COOK'S DARING VOYAGE 9. Swivel gun (12 total) 10. Captain’s cabin 11. Quarterdeck 12. Ship's supplies 13. Bosun's storeroom 14. Gunner’s cabin 15. Artist’s cabin 16. First lieutenant's cabin 1. Gallows 2. Main deck 3. Great cabin 4. Pantry 5. Surgeon’s cabin 6. Joseph Banks’ cabin 7. Galley 8. Tiller 1 7 13 5 16 14 2 3 6 11 8 9 10 15 12 4 Captain James Cook, 1775 by Nathaniel Dance-Holland NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, GREENWICH, UK Captain Cook's Landing at Botany, A.D. Published in Town & Country Journal, 1872 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA Pages including engraved charts from a copy of Cook's Endeavour log, penned by his clerk MITCHELL LIBRARY Illustrations of the flora on Cook's first Pacific voyage by Sydney Parkinson, under the direction of botanist Joseph Banks NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM En route from Plymouth in Devon, England August 26, 1768 Sailed from Plymouth with orders to search for an unknown southern land April 29, 1770 Landed in Botany Bay July 12, 1771 Arrived back in Kent CLASS BARK Length 29.77 metres Top speed 7-8 knots (13-15km/h) Sails 2777m/sq THE CARGO HOLD WAS PACKED WITH: 20 TONNES OF BISCUITS AND FLOUR 1200 GALLONS OF BEER 1600 GALLONS OF SPIRITS 4000 PIECES OF SALTED BEEF 6000 PIECES OF SALTED PORK 7860 POUNDS OF SAUERKRAUT BOTANY BAY HMS ENDEAVOUR 94 CREW When Cook landed at Botany Bay he was the first European to set foot on the east coast of the continent
