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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.
Charles Clerke, The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery" In Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing edited by Patrick Moser, 67-68. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008.
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.
His second-in-command was Charles Clerke aboard the DISCOVERY. The purpose of the expedition was to search for the North-West passage thought to have an outlet somewhere on the west coast of North America.
Captain Charles Clerke Registered Nurse was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration, 3 with Captain James Cook. Career. When Cook was killed during his 3rd expedition to the Pacific, Clerke took command but died later in the voyage from tuberculosis.
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