Open AccessNo Further North
Author(s) -
Richard Lansdown
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
etropic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.184
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 1448-2940
DOI - 10.25120/etropic.1.1.2002.3453
Subject(s) - harbour , possession (linguistics) , prison , independence (probability theory) , history , law , spanish civil war , archaeology , political science , philosophy , linguistics , statistics , mathematics , computer science , programming language
James Cook's Endeavour, the ship that took him on his first voyage of discovery between 1768 and 1771, has unexpectedly turned up on the sea floor of Newport harbour, Rhode Island. There the Whitby collier ended its days in 1778, having been renamed, having served as a prison ship for the British, and having being sunk to protect the harbour from American attack. (These were the days of the War of Independence.) A legal tussle is now anticipated between the good folk of Newport, for whom possession is nine points of the law, and the British Government, which nominally still owns the wreck.