Whitby Harbour is a narrow river mouth, on each side of which a red cliff towers, and along their slopes the old town clings. West Cliff belongs to the famed 18th-century explorer of the Pacific James Cook, and his statue stands atop the cliff, looking out to sea. As a young man he lodged with and worked for a merchant named John Walker, in Grape Lane. Walker’s 17th-century house still stands and is now the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, devoted to the achievements of his protégé. Cook’s ships were also built here in town; all having originally been collier barks. His ships, the Endeavour and the Resolution, and consorts which sailed with him on his second and third voyages, the Discovery and the Adventure. A non-sea-going replica of Endeavour (pictured here) can be found in the harbour and it’s open to visitors.

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