British voyager Captain Cook's famous travelling vessel has been found off the Rhode Island after thousands of years. The famous HMS endeavour that coursed the seas had disappeared mysteriously in the depths of the ocean. But now marine archaeologists claim that what they have found is most likely wreckage from the lost ship. The HMS took Captain Cook on a journey so adventurous that the man observed the transit of Venus in front of the Sun, travelled the world on the historic voyage of 1768, ran around on the Great Barrier Reef, and even won Australia for the British crown.

His death was no less exciting - the man died while trying to kidnap a king of Hawaii (portrayed in the above picture).

The HMS was renamed to Lord Sandwich a few years later and was used to transport British troops during the Revolutionary War. The whereabouts of the ship became unknown for a long period after that.

But now, researchers from the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) believe that the HMS/Sandwich is resting at the bottom of Newport Harbour - where it sank with 12 other ships during the Revolution.

The researchers believe that it was sunk in 1778 by the British Navy along with 12 other ships before the Battle of Rhode Island began. RIMAP was able to collect documents that traced historic information on all the ships that were sunk. One of these included the HMS/Sandwich.