Cook's first taste of life at sea was in this collier

Cook's move to Whitby, living at Grape Lane, the ships he sailed in, joining the Navy, his continuing relationship with John Walker, being a Yorkshireman

Did the young James Cook lodged in Grape Lane, Whitby, during his apprenticeship to Captain John Walker,
or did he lodge with his master in Haggersgate, Whitby?
Where did Mary Prowd live?

Where did apprentice seamen like James Cook stay in Whitby when not sailing?

Cook leanr to sail in ships from Whitby that carried coal from Newcastle to London.
Where did he stay when the ships were onloading their cargoes?  Aboard, in a tavern, or what?

The crew of the ships owned by the Walker brothers of Whitby in which James Cook served from 1747 to 1755

James Cook joined the Royal Navy at Wapping in East London on 17 June 1755.
Why he chose to join at all and why he chose that particular time have puzzled researchers.
It is interesting to speculate as to what might have caused Cook to take the step he did.