Captain Cook may have spent 30 years on the high seas, but the sailing yacht looks brand new. Such is the power of a good refit. The classic schooner, which Gulluk Shipyard delivered in 1993, recently ...

Researchers have confirmed that the 18th-century British explorer Captain James Cook's lost ship found its final resting place in Rhode Island's Newport Harbor, solving a decadeslong mystery, ...

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact, and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook; By Hampton Side; Doubleday; 432 pp., $35.00 Tales of Cook’s exploits have fallen out of favor.

When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit, ...

Among the key findings were the predominance of white oak in the ship’s construction—a material preferred by 18th-century shipwrights in the U.K., where the vessel was built—and holes that point to ...