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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 .
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.
En la bahía de Kealakekua se produjeron varias disputas entre los europeos y los hawaianos que culminaron con la muerte de Cook en un violento intercambio el 14 de febrero de 1779. El mando de la expedición fue asumido por Charles Clerke, que intentó en vano encontrar el pasaje antes de su propia muerte.
Capt Charles Clerke. primary name: primary name: Clerke, Charles. Details. individual; military/naval; British; Male. Life dates. 1741-1779. Biography. Friend of Captain James Cook (q.v.); joined Cook on all three voyages.
Charles Clerke was a captain of the Discovery, one of the ships that accompanied Cook on his three voyages of exploration. He wrote his first will in 1776, before sailing to the Pacific. Find out what he left to his family, friends and fellow sailors in this document from the Captain Cook Society.
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.
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.
