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Captain Cook's lost ship the Endeavour is FOUND after 250 years

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The HMS Endeavour was the first European vessel to reach Eastern Australia .

Captain Cook left England in 1768 in search of Australia - the 'unknown Southern Land' The ship was sold in 1775 and renamed The Lord Sandwich.

It was then scuttled off the US coast in 1778 , during the American War of Independence .

Experts have now formally identified the wreck as a wreck called RI 2394 in Newport Harbor , Rhode Island .

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