Editing James Cook (section)

===Leadership===

Several officers who served under Cook went on to have distinguished careers. [[William Bligh]], Cook's [[sailing master]], was given command of {{HMS|Bounty||6}} in 1787 to sail to Tahiti and return with [[breadfruit]]. Bligh's [[Mutiny on the Bounty|crew mutinied]], and placed him and 18 others into an open boat 23 feet (7 m) long. Bligh successfully navigated 3618 miles (5822 km) to [[Timor]], arriving with all men alive.<ref>{{ cite book
| url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010111b.htm 
 | access-date = 28 May 2025
 | first = A. G. L.  
 | last= Shaw
 | author-link =A. G. L. Shaw
 | chapter=Bligh, William (1754–1817)
 | title=Australian Dictionary of Biography 
 |  volume =1
 |  publisher= Melbourne University Press    
 |  year= 1966   
 |  pages= 118–122 
}}
</ref> He later became [[Governor of New South Wales]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_william_bligh.htm |title=Biography: William Bligh |work=Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard |year=2011 |access-date=7 August 2011 |archive-date=9 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209022850/http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheets_william_bligh.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> [[George Vancouver]], one of Cook's [[Midshipman|midshipmen]], led a [[Vancouver Expedition|voyage of exploration to the Pacific Coast of North America]] from 1791 to 1794.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/vancouver-george-2755 |chapter=Vancouver, George (1757–1798) |title=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |first=Nan |last=Phillips |access-date=22 September 2011 |archive-date=15 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815203650/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/vancouver-george-2755 |url-status=live}}</ref> In honour of Vancouver's former commander, his ship was named {{HMS|Discovery|1789|2}}. [[George Dixon (Royal Navy officer)|George Dixon]], who sailed under Cook on his third expedition, later commanded a commercial vessel that circumnavigated the globe.<ref>{{cite DCB 
|first=Barry M. 
|last=Gough
 |title=Dixon, George
 |volume=4 
|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dixon_george_1776_91_4E.html 
|access-date=7 August 2011
}}</ref>