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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.
CLERKE (Clarke, Clerk), CHARLES, naval officer and explorer; b. 1741 at Weathersfield Hall (near Braintree), England; d. 22 Aug. 1779 on board the Discovery, near Avacha (Tar’ya) Bay, Kamchatka peninsula (U.S.S.R.). Charles Clerke, the son of a justice of the peace, entered the Royal Navy in 1755.
El Discovery fue comandado por Charles Clerke, quien había servido en las dos primeras expediciones de Cook y había navegado anteriormente con Byron. Su primer teniente era James Burney , su segundo John Rickman y entre los guardiamarinas estaba George Vancouver .
Biography. Friend of Captain James Cook (q.v.); joined Cook on all three voyages. Commanded HMS Discovery on Cook's third voyage (1776-1780) and commanded the expedition from the HMS Resolution after Cook's death in February 1779 in Hawaii; Clerke himself died from tuberculosis on August 3rd 1779 and was buried at Petropavlosk on the Kamchatka ...
1 de feb. de 2007 · Clerke, the ailing power broker, may have found his view of Cook's death obscured less by the ‘confused crowd’ than by his last efforts to keep hold of the levers of patronage by acting as a ‘friend’ to Williamson.
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.
