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Captain Charles Clerke (22 August 1741 – 22 August 1779) was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration (including three circumnavigations), three with Captain James Cook.
Charles Clerke, the son of a justice of the peace, entered the Royal Navy in 1755. After serving throughout the Seven Years’ War, he became a midshipman on John Byron ’s expedition around the world in 1764–66.
Commanded HMS Discovery on Cook's third voyage (1776-1780) and commanded the expedition from the HMS Resolution after Cook's death in February 1779 in Hawaii; Clerke himself died from tuberculosis on August 3rd 1779 and was buried at Petropavlosk on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The will was made on 29 July 1776, on the day that Clerke managed to extricate himself from the debtors prison in London into which he had been taken as guarantor for his brother's debt (Sir John Clerke).
Published five years after Cook's death in Hawaii, the official account of Cook's third voyage was complicated by the deaths of both Cook and his second-in-command Charles Clerke.
1 de fev. de 2007 · Clerke, the ailing power broker, may have found his view of Cook's death obscured less by the ‘confused crowd’ than by his last efforts to keep hold of the levers of patronage by acting as a ‘friend’ to Williamson.
Charles Clerke, The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. In P. Moser (Ed.), Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing (pp. 67-68). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
