Who/What commemorated : Captain James Cook
Location : ../.. > Ward > Plymouth > St. Peter & the Waterfront Ward > Barbican Arribas Restaurant > Notte Street
Site/Position : On Arribas Restaurance, below left hand facing window.
Main Transcription
Description : Lettering is engraved. Top two lines painted grey.
Transcription : JAMES COOK / DISCOVERER AND NAVIGATOR 1728 - 1779 / Captain Royal Navy and leader of three great voyages of discovery which chartered unknown land / in the South Seas and Pacific. On each voyage he set out from Plymouth . He dined in a house on / this site with Cookworthy before embarking on his first voyage in 1768.
Material : stone
Reference Number : PLAQUE 058
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