FYI on Godspeed....my favorite word!
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on 8/14/07 2:03 am, edited 8/14/07 5:25 am - MO
on 8/14/07 2:03 am, edited 8/14/07 5:25 am - MO
Godspeed was one of the three ships of the English Virginia Company that were led by Captain Christopher Newport on the 1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of the first permanent English settlement in North America, Jamestown, in the new Colony of Virginia. All 39 passengers and 13 sailors she carried on that voyage were male. The route included a stop in the Canary Islands and, with better wind, would have taken about two months to traverse; instead, the voyage lasted 144 days.
The 40-ton Godspeed was a brigantine estimated to have been 68 feet in length. Its length over all is 88 feet, with the deck 65.5 feet long, and the main mast 71.5 feet tall, carrying 2,420 square feet of sail. If no other ship could make it, the Godspeed could - she could sail through dangerous waters in record time, as she left the ports one could hear the cries of the natives - GodSpeed-Godspeed, As if the very hand of God was guiding her. More information than you ever wanted to know....BobM.
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