Captain Cook set sail from Plymouth to find an elusive trade route linking Europe to Asia in 1776. He never saw England again ...

A shipwreck in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, has been positively identified as being Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour (replica pictured) At the bottom of a harbour on the east coast of the United States ...

The mission was ambitious and dangerous: to explore new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations and, in the captain's own words, go "farther than any other man has been before me." This was ...

On October 27, 1728, James Cook was born in a small town in northern England. Apprenticed to a shipowner, he eventually joined the Royal Navy, and is remembered today as Captain Cook. In a series of ...

On this day – October 20 – in 1926, right wing Bill Cook was named the captain of the New York Rangers, becoming the first captain in franchise history. A few weeks later, on November 16, 1926, Cook ...