SYDNEY, Australia — The Endeavour set off from England in 1768 and traversed a world that sailors’ maps had yet to document. The ship bounded through the Pacific Ocean, scraping up against the Great ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island commission has issued a permit for an intensive archaeological investigation of a shipwreck that researchers believe is the vessel 18th-century explorer Capt. James ...

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