In Wake Of Capt. Cook

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30157, 14 June 1963, Page 10

In Wake Of Capt. Cook

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 13. Captain Alan Villiers, the Australian-born seafarer who sailed a replica of the Mayflower across the Atlantic in 1957, is planning to visit New Zealand and Australia to discuss the possibility of sailing a replica of Captain Cook’s ship, Endeavour, from England.

he has put to the Royal Aus tralian Historical Society, ii to have a replica of the En deavour built in England. The ship, which would b< an engineless North Se< barque of the 1760’5, woulc be sailed to Australia alonj Captain Cook’s route, by waj of Cape Horn, Tahiti ant New Zealand. In an earlier letter to th< Royal Australian Historica Society, of which Mr Becket: received a copy. Captain Villiers said a boat builder al Whitby, Yorkshire, had giver him a provisional estimate of £lOO.OOO for building ths ship. The builder’s yard is only a stone’s throw from the yard where the original Endeavoui was built. Captain Villiers estimate: that the voyage to Australia would take <rom six to eight months, and with a crew ol 25 would cost about £25,000.

Captain Villiers says this in a letter to Mr G. C. Beckett. of Auckland, chairman of the New Zealand Endeavour committee, which also wants to see Captain Cook’s voyage of discovery retraced. He says his project, which