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Captain Charles Clerke (22 August 1741 – 22 August 1779) was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration (including three circumnavigations), three with Captain James Cook. When Cook was killed during his 3rd expedition to the Pacific, Clerke took command but died later in the voyage from tuberculosis .
Charles Clerke, the son of a justice of the peace, entered the Royal Navy in 1755. After serving throughout the Seven Years’ War, he became a midshipman on John Byron ’s expedition around the world in 1764–66. On his return Clerke wrote a sensationalized account of the notorious “Patagonian giants,” which, despite its publication in ...
1 de feb. de 2007 · Since Phillips's testimony only survives as a statement recorded by Charles Clerke, who was suspected of being partial towards Williamson by several of the crew, it would be unwise to treat it as an unmediated substitute for Phillips's lost journal.
- Scott Ashley
- 2007
25 de oct. de 2016 · Clerke, Charles (1741–1779) – captain and an explorer of the Bering Sea, who sailed four voyages around the world. He was born in Essex, England. C.C. entered the Royal Navy at the age of 14 as a midshipman.
Charles Clerke, The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery" In Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing edited by Patrick Moser, 67-68. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
Captain Charles Clerke (22 August 1741 – 22 August 1779) was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration, three with Captain James Cook. When Cook was killed during his 3rd expedition to the Pacific, Clerke took command but died later in the voyage from tuberculosis.
22 de jul. de 2023 · In 1772, Cook captained the HMS Resolution on a voyage to find land mass in the southern seas, sailing alongside Captain Charles Clerke on the HMS Discovery. Cook was accompanied by the naturalists Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg.
