[At Anchor, Table
Bay.]
27th. Winds variable and clear. Pleasant
weather. Sailed for Holland 4 Sail Dutch Ships.
28th, 29th. Ditto weather. Employ'd fixing new Topmast and Backstays, repairing Sails, etc.
Launched in 1764 as the merchant collier 'Earl of Pembroke', the ship was purchased in 1768 by the Royal Navy for £2,300, renamed 'Endeavour', and refitted for Cook’s expedition to view the transit of Venus from Tahiti, and then to look for the Southern Continent. This expedition was to turn into Cook's first circumnavigation of the globe.
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