Built using the original plans for James Cook's famous ship unearthed in the National Maritime Museum, the only concessions to modernity are those forced upon her by International Maritime Law. However there are now two decks below. The Lower deck is as it was in Cook's time, and here the crew still hang their hammocks to sleep. Below that was the hold, originally used for stores and for the collection of over 3,000 samples of plants and animals brought aboard by naturalist Joseph Banks during the three year voyage. This now provides space for a galley and mess, crew lockers, toilets and showers, and an engine.
Life aboard is a continual switch from one age to the other.
The crew sleep and work in the old age, yet eat, wash and relax in the modern style. This is probably just as well. In the Eighteenth century Royal Navy ships usually sailed with twice the number of crew needed, to allow for deaths on route. Today's 39 crew members who live in the cramped space of the lower deck would have found life completely intolerable if Cook's compliment of 62 seamen were copied today. Presumably that is why the great explorer also took 12 armed marines with him, who slept between crew and officers.