Endeavour Whitby - Puzzle (500)

Endeavour Whitby is a 500-piece Gibson puzzle. This puzzle shows the replica of the ship on which Captain James Cook sailed to Australia and New Zealand when it arrived in Whitby to mark the 250th anniversary of Cook's first scientific expedition to the Pacific in 1768. 

The original Endeavour was first registered as the "Earl of Pembroke" when she was built in Whitby by shipbuilder Thomas Fishburn in 1764. She was built as a Whitby Cat, designed to carry coal, before the Navy put her into service and re-registered her as HM Bark Endeavour. 

Whitby is steeped in history, including fishing, the jet engine industry (did you know it is still the best place in the world to find the shiny black gemstone so beloved of the Victorians?), Captain Cook and whaling. Whitby also has literary connections - the town appears in Bram Stoker's famous Dracula. The vampire first landed here from Transylvania in the guise of a black dog.