captaincook

Translation: Evacuees, having arrived on the "Captain Cook", are moving into the military camp (province Noord-Brabant). Still wearing the topee this family arrives in the snowy camp. Netherlands, Budel, January 20th, 1958.

Fabulous. Maybe the most graceful pilot vessel I have laid my eyes on! Thanks Colin. Alex.

Launched in 1892 - see full details etc - This photo seems to be 1930s from all the suburban sprawl behind. And the superstructure has been altered since this Samuel J. Hood photo (ANMM) -

There were three Captain Cook Pilot vessels The one built in 1892 was No 2 . The photo above is Number 3 . Built in 1939 A bit of history>>>> Captain Cook III The third of three pilot vessels of the same name, Captain Cook was built 1939 by Morts Dock & Engineering Co., of Balmain, N.S.W., Australia, for the N.S.W. Maritime Services Board. Morts Dock won a tender in 1936 with the price of �75,000 Cook III was to become Morts' ship no. 46, engine no. 447, and boiler no. 811. She was registered in the Port of Sydney and had a tonnage of 524 gross and 214 net. She had a length of 165.7 feet, a width of 26.6 feet, and a depth of 15.2 feet. She was built with 1 deck, and had a 3 cylinder engine capable of 165hp which could attain some 12 knots. She carried two boarding boats 18.8 feet x 6.0 feet x 2.1 feet, and a motor dinghy of 15 feet x 5.3 feet x 1.2 feet with a 3hp engine. Cook III went into service in 1939 and was retired in 1959. She was sold originally as a tourist ship for the Mediterranean, but when this plan failed, she was scrapped and broken up in 1960.

nugget1958 Aha, my bad. Thanks. imho 'Captain Cook (III)' looks rather old-fashioned for 1939.

It is interesting that our predecessors often erected a monument and then caged it in with railings. Were they implying that the monument was too sacred for the public to approach, or that the public were not to be trusted, or both? I do not think that graffitti was a problem in the early 1900s, so it cannot have been the latter. Today the railings are no longer there, and the monument looks a lot better for it.

Hello! We'd love you to add this photo to the National Maritime Museum's group Travellers' Tails. www.flickr.com/groups/nmm_travellers/rules/ This group has been set up to collate photographic responses to the exhibition The Art and Science of Exploration: 1768-80 at the National Maritime Museum and touring to the Grant Museum of Zoology, the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, the Hunterian Museum and Horniman Museum and Gardens. The exhibition aims to explore Captain Cook’s voyages of discovery, as well as the exchange of ideas and experiences around travel and exploration and investigate key questions around the history of art, science and exploration and what this means today, drawing on George Stubbs’ Enlightenment era paintings of a kangaroo and dingo, recently acquired by the National Maritime Museum. We’d love to see your photographs - please help us build a gallery of images to enrich the group! Thanks! www.flickr.com/groups/nmm_travellers/rules/