title: List of ships named HMS Endeavour
text: # List of ships named HMS Endeavour
  
  HMS Endeavour may refer to one of the following ships:
  
  ## In the Royal Navy
  
  * English ship Endeavour (1652), a 36-gun ship purchased in 1652 and sold in 1656
  * HMS Endeavour (1694 bomb vessel), a 4-gun bomb vessel purchased in 1694 and sold in 1696
  * HMS Endeavour (1694 fire ship), a fire ship purchased in 1694 and sold in 1696
  * HMS Endeavour (1694 hoy), a storeship hoy purchased in 1694 and sold in 1705
  * HMS Endeavour Transport (1708), a storeship launched in 1708 and sold in 1713
  * HMS Endeavour (1763 cutter), a cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1771
  * HMS Endeavour (1763 sloop), a 14-gun sloop, purchased in 1763 and foundered in 1780 in a hurricane off Jamaica
  * HM Bark Endeavour, originally Earl of Pembroke, a 10-gun bark purchased in 1768; known as Endeavour Bark to distinguish her from her contemporaries listed above; was commanded by Lieutenant James Cook in his first voyage of exploration to the Pacific, 1768–1771; sold in 1775
     * HM Bark Endeavour (replica), a sailing replica of Cook's Endeavour
  * HMS Endeavour (1775), a schooner purchased in 1775 and sold in 1782
  * HMS Endeavour (1781), another schooner purchased in 1782; there may have been other brigs or schooners obtained in the West Indies during this period, as the name was retained for several replacement vessels
  * HMS Endeavour (1912), a survey ship launched in 1912, used as a depot ship from 1940, and sold in 1946
  
  ## In the Royal New Zealand Navy
  
  * HMNZS Endeavour (1956), which served as the Antarctic support vessel from 1956 to 1962
  * USS Namakagon (AOG-53), which served as the Antarctic support vessel HMNZS Endeavour from 1962 to 1971
  * HMNZS Endeavour (A11), a fleet tanker commissioned in 1988, and decommissioned in 2017
  