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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.
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.
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.
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.
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, who had already made three Pacific voyages, two of them with Cook, was selected as captain of the Discovery. Clerke’s extensive knowledge of the Pacific was typical of many of the crew on board the two ships, large numbers of whom had sailed with Cook before.
