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Bronze statue of Captain James Cook

Inscription reads:
Front: To Strive, to seek to find and not to yield. To commemorate the men who built, the Whitby Ships and the men who sailed with him.
North Side: In every situation he stood unrivalled and alone on him all eyes were turned.

Cooks Ships, all built in Whitby, were named:
Endeavour - previously called the Earl of Pembroke
Resolution - previously called Drake
Adventure- - previously called Raleigh
Discovery