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  2. List of Jamestown colonists - Wikipedia

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    [97] [98] Thomas Gates had ships Sarah, [99] Tryall [note 8], Swan [note 9] which arrived just after the Dale flotilla. Those who died before arriving in Virginia are indicated with a Latin cross ( ️) John Clark, pilot [102] Thomas Dale, "Marshall of Virginia", on the Starr; ️ Mistress Thomas Gates, wife of Gates [103] Daughter of Gates (I)

  3. CSS Virginia - Wikipedia

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    CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the razéed (cut down) original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack.

  4. History of Jamestown, Virginia (1607–1699) - Wikipedia

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    The London Company sent an expedition to establish a settlement in the Virginia Colony in December 1606. The expedition consisted of three ships, Susan Constant (the largest ship, sometimes known as Sarah Constant, Christopher Newport captain and in command of the group), Godspeed (Bartholomew Gosnold captain), and Discovery (the smallest ship, John Ratcliffe captain).

  5. Susan Constant - Wikipedia

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    Susan Constant (or Sarah Constant) was the largest of three ships of the English Virginia Company on the 1606–1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia. Captained by Christopher Newport , she was joined by the Discovery and Godspeed .

  6. Christopher Newport - Wikipedia

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    Christopher Newport (b. 1561 – d. 1617) was an English seaman and privateer.He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.

  7. Virginia (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Virginia is the name of several ships: Virginia (pinnace) or Virginia of Sagadahoc, a pinnace built in 1607-08 by colonists at the Popham Colony; Virginia (schooner), a wooden replica schooner launched in 2005; HMS Virginia, a 32-gun frigate; USS Virginia, many ships by the name; USRC Virginia, many ships of the US Revenue Cutter Service

  8. Virginia (pinnace) - Wikipedia

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    The ship was a project of the Plymouth Company, branch of the proprietary Virginia Company, on land England claimed as belonging to the Virginia Colony. She was the first English ocean-going vessel built in the New World , and a demonstration of the new colony's ability to build ships.

  9. List of colonists at Roanoke - Wikipedia

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    The exact number of people in the "Lost Colony" is disputed. [7]: 232 Hakluyt's Principal Navigations provides a list of 119 individuals who "safely arrived in Virginia" and remained there as of August 1587. [8] The list is not credited, but was presumably compiled by White, given his unique familiarity with the matter.