Captain Cook’s Ship
Sir, —I was interested in the criticism of the New Zealand Centennial postage stamp published in your issue of August 2. My dictionary defines ■bark as “a small ship,” “a sailing boat,” and barque as “a three-masted ship with no square sails on the miz-zen-mast.” Bark and barque both derive from the French language, but the former word is generally used in the poetic sense to describe a ship or boat of any kind. Whereas the latter definitely describes a vessel of a. particular type. I think that there is a scale model of Captain Cook’s “Endeavour” in the South. Kensington Museum, in London. I wonder if the designer of the Centennial Stamp bad a photograph of that model before him when he drew a picture of the Endeavour. My own recollection is that the vessel, in common with others of her time, had a decorative “beak” projecting from the fo’castle under the bowsprit and had a bow somewhat less bluff than the bow shown upon the Centennial stamp.—l am, etc., MATELOT. Wellington,. August 2.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 263, 4 August 1939, Page 11
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