What was Captain James Cook's occupation?

Answer 1

James Cook was the son of a farm labourer, and held no great ambitions, being apprenticed in a grocer/haberdashery when he was 16. Lack of aptitude in the trade led his employer to introduce Cook to local shipowners, who took him on as a merchant navy apprentice. Here he was educated in algebra, trigonometry, navigation, and astronomy, which later set Cook up to command his own ship.

Answer 2

James Cook was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and initially a Lieutenant before being promoted to captain in the Royal Navy.
Prior to his naval career, he was apprenticed in a grocer/haberdashery, when he was 16. Lack of aptitude in the trade led his employer to introduce Cook to local shipowners, who took him on as a merchant navy apprentice.

Answer 3

James Cook was born at Marton in North Yorkshire, on 27 October 1728.

He was the son of a farm labourer and worked on his father's farm. James held no great ambitions, being apprenticed in a grocer/haberdashery when he was 16. Lack of aptitude in the trade led his employer to introduce Cook to local shipowners, who took him on as a merchant navy apprentice. Here he was educated in algebra, trigonometry, navigation, and astronomy, which later set Cook up to command his own ship.

Answer 4

James Cook was the son of a farm labourer, and held no great ambitions, being apprenticed in a grocer/haberdashery when he was 16. Lack of aptitude in the trade led his employer to introduce Cook to local shipowners, who took him on as a merchant navy apprentice.

Answer 5

He worked for his father who was a farm manager until at age 16 he became an apprentice in a grocery and clothing store.

Answer 6

He began working with his father as a farmer, later he was apprentice to a grocer

Answer 7

well i wouldn't have typed that question in if i knew what it meant

Answer 8

James Cook's father was a farm labourer.