Whitby flies the flag for its seafaring hero James Cook

Festival marks 250th anniversary of the mariner’s extraordinary voyage of Pacific exploration“Cook and his men were the astronauts of the world,” declares Alan Eavis, a volunteer at the Captain Cook Memorial Museum in Whitby. “They ventured where no sailor had gone before. The majority of them weren’t special people – they were just ordinary guys who did extraordinary things. During this 250th anniversary festival, young people will realise that we are all cap