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1741 – 1779Charles Clerke (1741-1779)Died 22 August 1779, aged 38Charles Clerke was a Royal Navy officer who sailed on all three of James Cook's Pacific voyages. He took command of the third expedition after Cook was killed in Hawaii. He died of tuberculosis off Kamchatka on his 38th birthday.