HMS Adventure was a barque that the Royal Navy purchased in 1771. She had been the merchant vessel Marquis of Rockingham, launched in 1770 at Whitby. In naval service she sailed with Resolution on James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific in 1772–1775. She was the first ship to circumnavigate the globe from west to east. After her return she served as a store ship until 1779. The navy sold her in 1783 and she resumed a civilian career, but retaining the name Adventure. She was lost in May 1811.

Career

She began her career as the North Sea collier Marquis of Rockingham, launched at Whitby in 1770.

Soon after his return from his first voyage in 1771, Commander Cook was commissioned by the Royal Society of London to make a second voyage in search of a supposed southern continent, Terra Australis Incognita. He arranged for the Navy to purchase two ships, the second and smaller of which was Marquis of Rockingham.

The Navy purchased her in 1771 and first named her Raleigh or Rayleigh, and then Adventure. The Navy commissioned her under Joseph Shank.

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! Year

! Master

! Owner

! Trade

! Source & notes

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| 1801

| H.Lesk

| T.Brown

| London transport

| LR; good repairs 1795 & repairs 1797

|-

| 1806

| Appleton

| T.Brown

| Hull–Memel

| LR;repairs 1795, good repairs 1798, & small repairs 1803

|-

| 1811

| J.Shaw<br />Snowden

| Appleton

| Hull–St Johns

| LR; repairs 1803; good repairs 1795, 1798, & 1810

|-

|}

Fate

On 24 May 1811, Adventure, Snowden, master, was sailing between Leith and Quebec when she was wrecked in the Saint Lawrence River. All her crew were saved.

Citations

References

  • Lincoln Paxton Paine, Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia, Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
  • Gibson, Doug (1978) "The Adventure", in Cook's Log 3/3
  • Lieutenant's logbook for HMS Robust 1778 – 1779; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; ADM/L/R/165 1778
  • Masters' Logs, Store ship Adventure; The National Archives, Kew; ADM 52/1534
  • http://collections.nmm.ac.uk/collections/objects/85203.html
  • Digitised copy of the original log of HMS Adventure by Commander T Furneaux, from the British Atmospheric Data Centre/The National Archives as part of the CORRAL project
  • Digitised copy of the original log of HMS Adventure by Commander T Furneaux, from the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal via the National Library of Australia