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James Cook was a British navigator, cartographer, and explorer. He became a captain of the Royal Navy and was known as the first European to land on the east coast of Australia. James Cook was also the first navigator to map New Zealand and Newfoundland.
Born 7th Nov 1728 in Marton (Middlesbrough) and died 14th Feb 1779 in Hawaii.
The son of a small Yorkshire farmer, he began sailing on the coalfields of Whitby, a small port on the northwest coast of England, at a young age. Cook used his years of trading coal at sea to study mathematics, trigonometry, navigation and astronomy.
Soon noticed as a sailor and leader, he was given command of one of the ships. But Cook has other dreams: to join the navy....
Navigator, scientist, diplomat, captain. Born in Gô Castle, near Albi in 1741 and died in 1788 in, Vanikoro.
Jean-François de La Pérouse began his career at the age of fifteen in the navy guard. At an early age, he was armed in the campaigns of Canada and Newfoundland (called the Seven Years War), as well as the Battle of the Cardinals (1759). For five years he sailed on the Indian Ocean (1772-1777).
He commanded the American War, and distinguished himself on several Caribbean missions to Hudson Bay. He is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant officers in the fleet, and at the age of 38 he is appointed captain of the ship.
Perugia is distinguished by its competence, intelligence, scientific spirit, and humanity. He is a leader who is loved by his men, methodical and conscientious and who organizes his operations with great care...
Flibustier, writer and excellent sailor
Born in East Coaker in 1652 - died in London in 1715
Son of a farmer, who remained orphans, he frowned. He traveled to Newfoundland in 1666 and then to the East Indies. From 1672 to 1674, he served in a Royal Navy building against Holland and participated in two battles. Sick, he disembarked and worked for six months as a foreman on a plantation in Jamaica (1674).
After an expedition to the Bay of Honduras (1675), he published in England a description of this bay (1678). Back in Jamaica, he became a freeloader (1679). He plundered with 331 companions the Spanish trading posts of the South Seas and took over several vessels.
