5 July 1770

James Cook's Journal: Daily Entries

Table of Contents On this day ... 5 July 1770 Endeavour Voyage Maps James Cook's Journal Ms 1, National Library of Australia Joseph Banks's Journal Sydney Parkinson's Journal The authorised published account of Cook's Voyage by John Hawkesworth 1770 Index Search Contact us Search for Nautical Term in Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine...

5 July 1770 Thursday 5th Strong breezes ^at SE and fair weather. In the PM warped the ship over and at high-water laid her a shore on the sand bank on the south side of the Harbour River for I was afraid to lay her broad side to the shore where she lay before because the ground lies with too great a decent and she hath already received some damage by laying there these last neep tides, at least she still makes water — Voyaging Accounts © Transcription by Paul Turnbull of National Library of Australia, Manuscript 1 page 263, 2004 Published by kind permission of the Library To cite this page use: https://paulturnbull.org/project/southseas/journals/cook/17700705.html