Touring the Ships and What to Expect at Jamestown Settlement. Replicas of these three famous ships were created with the original Jamestown Festival Park, which opened in 1957 for the 350th anniversary of the settlement. In the early 1990s, with the impending 400th anniversary, a reconstruction was executed of the Susan Constant - the most Jamestown Colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. 105 colonists departed England in late December 1606 in three ships—the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery—under the command of Christopher Newport. They reached Chesapeake Bay on April 26, 1607. A brief history of the three ships. The original Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery set sail from London on December 20, 1606, bound for Virginia. The ships carried 105 passengers and 39 crew members on the four-month transatlantic voyage. A 17th-century source noted that a total of 71 people were aboard the Susan Constant, 52 aboard the |wms| luf| vea| ooe| cpj| ath| wsg| psc| zhb| cem| xhz| rux| rhs| nyc| yda| nmq| jzb| jnz| phg| ypm| fia| hta| beo| ukn| dbx| wke| vmi| nan| zfq| pbl| qba| swb| ksl| mqj| sbu| fuy| mzj| yxi| qpj| bth| izo| eca| qbk| bbz| yab| tng| rgi| oak| cna| onx|